I AM IN FAVOR OF A NEW KIND OF GOVERNMENT.''OSHO''

Q: BELOVED BHAGWAN, WHY THE POLITICIAN AFRAID OF YOU?

The politician are afraid of me because I am against all politics. To me it seems

keeping humanity retarded because the vested interest of the politicians is that

humanity should not be very intelligent.

If humanity is really very intelligent who is going to accept a man like Adolf

Hitler as a leader of a nation -- who is simply insane. Adolf Hitler needs an

insane humanity to support him. Just look at your politicians. They are not the

most intelligent people in the society, they are the most cunning, certainly. But

cunningness does not mean intelligence.

The politicians are afraid of me because I am teaching intelligence, awareness,

consciousness. My whole effort is to make every person so intelligent and clear

that no idiots like Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini or Mao Tse-tung or Joseph

Stalin can deceive people, can cheat people.

It is a basic truth that only people who are suffering from inferiority complex go

into politics. It is the inferiority complex that leads them into politics so that they

can prove to themselves and to the world that they are not inferior, they have

power.

A real superior man never goes to politics. It is below him. It is always the

inferior who go to the politics. And these inferior people have all the power of

the armies, of atomic energies, of nuclear weapons. It is a very strange world.

The best of the minds create atomic energy. For example, Albert Einstein creates

atomic energy. He was creating it in Germany.

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If he had not left Germany the atom bombs would have been in the hands of

Adolf Hitler. But there is not much difference. The atom bombs were in the

hands of Roosevelt or Truman. And Truman used those atomic bombs on

Hiroshima and Nagasaki uselessly, without any purpose. Germany has already

failed and Japan could have lasted not more than two weeks. There was no need

to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to use atom bombs. But Truman was in

a hurry. He wanted to use them to show the power to the whole world.

It is a strange coincidence that his name is Truman. His name should be un-

Truman. And when next day in the morning he was asked by the journalists,

"Could you sleep?"

He said, "Yes. I slept very well because the project was successful."

And the project was to destroy two beautiful cities, innocent people, children,

women, old people, civilians who has nothing to do with war. In both the cities

nearabout two hundred thousand people were destroyed by president un-

Truman and still he had a good sleep. Can you think this man as human?

Albert Einstein was immensely hurt and before he died he said, that "If there is

another life I would like to be a plumber, I don't want to be a physicist again."

The best of the minds create, and the worst of the minds use -- all the power, all

the energy.

I am against this situation. I would like best of the minds to rule and the power

should be in the hands of more alert, more conscious, more human, beings.

I am in favor of a new kind of government. I call it meritocracy: that merit should

be the criterion. There is no need of political parties. If you need a health minister

you have all medical experts, let them stand for the post, let the country choose

the best physician, the best surgeon -- there is no need for any politics in it.

You need an education minister, let all the educationists... you have all the

chancellors and vice-chancellors in the universities, you have great professors,

you have scientists -- let them stand and let people choose the best.

The world will be far better if we are in the hands of intelligent people, creative

people who cannot destroy, whose intelligence won't allow them to do all stupid

things that politicians go on doing. And the power should always be with the

more alert, more aware, more conscious people. Then only we are safe.

Otherwise, power is going to destroy the whole humanity.