Ruling the world is a bit like playing “truth or dare.” When I was a child, I always thought that the “dare” part was the whole point of the game, like when you dare a friend to kiss someone they don’t like. When I grew up, I realised that the “truth” part is far more interesting. I guess most people, given dominion over the world, would similarly start by trying to force people to act in a particular way but, just as in truth or dare, we shouldn’t underestimate the “truth.”
So maybe I would start by opening the secret safes in the White House, the Kremlin, the Vatican and 10 Downing Street, to finally discover who murdered John F Kennedy, whether Adolf Hitler really died in that Berlin bunker and what happened in Roswell in 1947. I would require telephone companies to tell me what they are hiding with regards to the harmful effects of cellular radiation; and I would oblige food giants to disclose what they are doing to billions of animals in the meat, dairy and egg industries. With the world’s resources at my call, I would then try to tackle the big riddles of human existence, such as what is consciousness, and what is the root cause of suffering?
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