And those who have reason and logic on their side —they very respectfully retreat when faced with an unreasonable kind of animal. Why this respect? “No, we don’t want to hurt somebody’s feelings.” It's not about feelings. It's about facts. Facts must always prevail over feelings.
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Questioner: Talking about global conflicts recently, with multiple wars all across the globe, on the news every day and you know Sometimes it can feel very anxiety-inducing, but oftentimes, it's you know a cause of human factors. So we want to ask you: what human factors do you think have led to this unrest and global peace?
Acharya Prashant: See, it has mostly to do with the rise of right wing-ism across the world. Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, and several other budding minor conflicts—if you look at them, some of them might not even be international in nature. If you look at them they are centrally related to the rise in right-wing attitudes. Now, where is that coming from? That is coming from a few places. I'll try to enumerate them. The first is that the democratic model probably itself is flawed. It is not populations that start a war. You cannot say "Russians invaded Ukrainians"— that didn't happen. It is the ruler, the man at the center, that starts the war, mostly for his own personal ambitions and based on his personal ideologies.
What’s remarkable is that this man at the center—and that’s what we’re seeing across the world today—is mostly a product of the democratic process itself, or at least a semi-democratic process, at least a pseudo-democratic process. Even in Russia, you won't officially call it a dictatorship. Right? And that's happening in the U.S. as well. The democratic process believes that people, just as they are, are capable of taking wise and sane decisions. Now, this principle—this assumption—is obviously better than allowing some random person to assume authority. And that’s why democracy has been, in a relative sense, the best system known to us, especially since World War II.
