Ours is a democratic system. You are the government. If you want to accelerate climate devastation, it will be accelerated. Who can stop it? A leader is just a poor person, typically an old man. How will he resist the combined might of the electorate? All real change can happen only at the level of the individual. Once it happens there, it takes no time for governments to toe the line.
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Questioner: Namaste Acharya Ji. My question is about anxieties regarding the future wherein the threats that were supposed to be in the future have come in the present almost: AI, which challenges our purpose as humans because it can do everything better than us, and climate change, which threatens our very survival, and the decline in the traditional institutions that could provide us solace. How does an individual cope with these anxieties? Further, what can we, as a community, as societies, do? Do you see any role of public policy or the government in this?
Acharya Prashant: Government is a concept. Government is a term. It's a concept. You are the government. I'm talking to somebody in flesh and blood. You are the government. Ours is a democratic system. You form the government. You don't just choose. You form the government. You are the policy. I won't even say you choose the policymakers.
You are the policy. Everything will be as you are. If we remain enslaved for long centuries, that has something to do with the way we had, unfortunately, become. It all begins within.
