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The world of politics is, at its core, based on instinct. It belongs to the law of the jungle: might makes right. And people who are interested in politics are simply mediocre. Politics requires no qualifications other than one: a deep sense of inferiority. Politics can be reduced to an almost mathematical maxim. Politics is the will to power. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a book called "The Will to Power." It is very significant because the will to power manifests itself in many ways. Therefore, you must understand politics not only as the politics that is known by the name of politics. Whenever someone pursues goals of power, it is politics.
It doesn't matter if it's related to the state, the government, and so on... In any other field, for example, in a university: a lecturer tries to become a professor, a professor wants to become a dean, a dean wants to become a vice-chancellor – a constant struggle for power. At least one could expect that this would not be the case in the field of education. But no one is interested in education; everyone is interested in power.
The same is true in religion: a bishop wants to become a cardinal, a cardinal wants to become the pope. Everyone is on a ladder, trying to climb higher, while others pull him down by the legs. Those who are higher try to push him down so that he cannot rise to their level. And the same is done to those who are on the lower rungs of the ladder: one pulls them down by the legs, the other hits and kicks them so that they remain as low as possible. The entire ladder, if you see it as an observer, is just a circus. And this happens everywhere, in everything. Thus, for me, politics is an attempt to prove one's superiority. But why? – because deep down you feel inferior. And a person of instinct is doomed to feel inferior – he is, in fact, inferior. This is not an "inferiority complex"; it is a fact, a reality – he is inferior. To live a life of instinct means to live at the very lowest of all possible levels of life.
If you understand this struggle, the struggle for superiority, you step out of the struggle – you simply say: "I am I, neither superior nor inferior." If you stand aside and observe the whole spectacle, you have entered the second world – the world of reason and consciousness. It only requires understanding the rotten situation that everyone gets caught in. You just need to devote a little patient observation to this situation: "What is happening? And even if I reach the highest rung of the ladder, what is the point?" You are just standing among the sky and look like a fool. There is nowhere to go. Of course, you cannot go down because people will laugh at you: – Where are you going? What happened? Are you defeated? You cannot go down and you cannot move further because there is no rung above, and so you are just standing in the sky, pretending that you have achieved something, that you have found the meaning of life.
And you know that you have found nothing. You have simply been left a fool, and your whole life has been wasted. Now there is nowhere to climb, and if you go down, you will become a laughingstock. Therefore, everyone who becomes president or prime minister of a country only prays to die in office. Because you cannot go down – it is very offensive, humiliating; there is nowhere to go up. You are stuck; only death can free you from this dilemma.
Osho
It doesn't matter if it's related to the state, the government, and so on... In any other field, for example, in a university: a lecturer tries to become a professor, a professor wants to become a dean, a dean wants to become a vice-chancellor – a constant struggle for power. At least one could expect that this would not be the case in the field of education. But no one is interested in education; everyone is interested in power.
The same is true in religion: a bishop wants to become a cardinal, a cardinal wants to become the pope. Everyone is on a ladder, trying to climb higher, while others pull him down by the legs. Those who are higher try to push him down so that he cannot rise to their level. And the same is done to those who are on the lower rungs of the ladder: one pulls them down by the legs, the other hits and kicks them so that they remain as low as possible. The entire ladder, if you see it as an observer, is just a circus. And this happens everywhere, in everything. Thus, for me, politics is an attempt to prove one's superiority. But why? – because deep down you feel inferior. And a person of instinct is doomed to feel inferior – he is, in fact, inferior. This is not an "inferiority complex"; it is a fact, a reality – he is inferior. To live a life of instinct means to live at the very lowest of all possible levels of life.
If you understand this struggle, the struggle for superiority, you step out of the struggle – you simply say: "I am I, neither superior nor inferior." If you stand aside and observe the whole spectacle, you have entered the second world – the world of reason and consciousness. It only requires understanding the rotten situation that everyone gets caught in. You just need to devote a little patient observation to this situation: "What is happening? And even if I reach the highest rung of the ladder, what is the point?" You are just standing among the sky and look like a fool. There is nowhere to go. Of course, you cannot go down because people will laugh at you: – Where are you going? What happened? Are you defeated? You cannot go down and you cannot move further because there is no rung above, and so you are just standing in the sky, pretending that you have achieved something, that you have found the meaning of life.
And you know that you have found nothing. You have simply been left a fool, and your whole life has been wasted. Now there is nowhere to climb, and if you go down, you will become a laughingstock. Therefore, everyone who becomes president or prime minister of a country only prays to die in office. Because you cannot go down – it is very offensive, humiliating; there is nowhere to go up. You are stuck; only death can free you from this dilemma.
Osho