Translator: Albana Telhai Reviewer: Helena Bedalli
Well, as many of you know
the latest election results were as follows:
Hillary Clinton, Democrat candidate
won with a landslide
of 52% of the total votes.
Jill Stein, the Green candidate,
were ranked with a gap, the second with 19%.
Donald J. Trump, Republican candidates,
followed directly with 14%
and the remaining votes were split between the abstainers
and Gary Johnson, Liberal candidate.
(Laughter)
Now, in what parallel universe do you think I live?
Well, I do not live in a parallel universe.
I live in the world and the world has so voted.
Let me get back to you and explain what I mean.
In June this year,
I started something called “Global Score”.
And the Global Score does exactly what the name says.
For the first time in history,
allows anyone, anywhere in the world,
to vote in the elections of other states.
Now, why would you do that?
What does it mean?
Let me tell you how it works.
Entering a website,
beautiful for more,
and chooses an election process.
Here is a group that we have already covered.
Develop approximately one per month, or anywhere around.
So you can see Bulgaria, the US,
The Secretary-General of the United Nations,
Brex’s referendum there in the end.
You can choose the choices you are interested in,
and choose the candidates.
These are the candidates of the last presidential election
in the small island country of São Tomé and Príncipe,
199,000 inhabitants,
on the west coast of Africa.
And then you can see the short summary for each of the candidates
for which I hope to be quite neutral,
informative and summarized.
And when you find the candidate you like, vote for it.
These were the candidates
in the last Presidential Election in Iceland,
and so it works.
But why would you want to vote in another country’s election?
Well, it would not be a reason,
I assure you of this,
interfering with the democratic processes of another country.
It is not that purpose.
In fact, you can not,
because I usually announce the result
since the electorate of each state has already voted,
so there is no way to interfere in that process.
But most importantly,
I’m not particularly interested
in the domestic affairs of individual countries.
That’s not what we vote for.
What they proposed to make Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton for Americans
it’s not quite our job sincerely.
This is something that only Americans can vote for.
No, in the global vote, you only consider one aspect of it,
what is it that will lead them to the rest of us?
And this is so important because we live,
no doubt you are upset to hear them say,
in a globalized, hyper-interconnected, massively intertwined World
where the political decisions of peoples of other countries
can and will have an impact on our lives
no matter who we are, and where we live.
Like butterfly wings,
clashing on one side of the Pacific
he may seem to create a storm on the other side,
so it is with the world in which we live today
and the world of politics.
There is no longer a dividing line between domestic and international affairs.
Any country, however small,
and whether it is São Tomé and Príncipe,
can give Nelson Mandela the next
or the next Stalin.
They can pollute the atmosphere and the oceans, which belong to us all,
or they can become accountable and help all of us.
And yet, the system is so strange
because he is not in the same position as the reality of globalization.
we saw a small number of people being allowed to vote for those leaders,
even though their impact is giant
and almost universal.
How many was the number?
140 million Americans have voted
for the next US president,
and yet, as we all know, for a few weeks time,
someone will submit nuclear discharge codes
and Donald J. Trump.
if this does not affect the impact of all of us,
I do not know what else to do.
Similarly, the referendum elections for Brex,
few millions of British people voted for it,
but whatever the outcome of the vote came,
would have a significant impact
on the lives of tens, hundreds of millions of people around the world.
And yet, only a small number can vote.
What democracy is this?
Major decisions affecting us all
are placed by a relatively small number of people.
And I do not know about you,
but I do not sound so democratic.
So I’m trying to clarify it.
Like I mentioned
we do not ask for internal questions.
In fact, I address only two questions to all the candidates.
I send them the same two questions each time.
Ask, one,
if you choose, what will you do for the rest of us,
for the remainder of the seven billion who live on this planet?
The second question:
What is your vision for the future of your country in the world?
What role do you see playing?
Each candidate, I send these questions.
They do not answer it all. Let’s be clear.
I consider that if you are aligned
to become the next US president,
you are probably busy most of the time,
so I’m not quite surprised that not all answers, but many do.
Every time more and more.
And some of them give more than answers.
Some of them respond in the most enthusiastic and exciting manner
that you can imagine.
I want to say a word here about Savior Chishimba,
who was one of the candidates
in the recent presidential election in Zambia.
His answers to these two questions were essentially a 18-page dissertation
for his view on Zambia’s potential role in the world
and in the international community.
I posted it on the website so everyone can read it.
Now, Savior won the global vote,
but did not win the elections in Zambia.
So I was wondering,
what will I do with this extraordinary group of people?
I have some wonderful people here who have won the global vote.
We always make mistakes, anyway.
The one we have chosen
he is never a person elected by the local electorate.
Partially it may be because we seem to appeal to women.
But I think this can be a sign
that the local electorate is still thinking on a rather national scale.
They are still thinking very internally.
They are still asking themselves: What’s for me here? …
instead of what they should seek today,
that is, what is there for us here?
But here it is.
So suggestions, not now, please,
but send me an email if an idea comes to you
for what we can do with this amazing team of glorious losers.
(Laughter)
We have Savior Chishimba, whom I mentioned.
Kemi Halla Tómasdóttir,
which was the favorite in the Icelandic presidential election.
Some may have seen her stunning speech at TEDWomen
just a few weeks ago
where she talked about the need for more women participating in politics.
We have Maria das Neves from São Tomé and Príncipe.
We’re Hillary Clinton.
I do not know if it is available.
Kill Jill Stein.
And we have also covered the next election
for the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
We have the former Prime Minister of New Zealand,
who would be a wonderful member of the team.
I think maybe those people,
the club of glorious losers, can travel around the world
wherever there are choices
and in our modern times remind people of the need
of external thinking
and for the international consequences.
So, what’s behind the global vote?
Well, obviously,
the show Donald and Hillary is a bit difficult to follow,
but there are some other important choices that are coming.
In fact, they seem to have multiplied.
Something is going on, in the world I’m sure you’ve noticed.
And forthcoming next elections are all critical.
In just a few days,
we have the repetition of Austria’s presidential election,
with the possibility that Norbert Hofer
be done as usually described,
the first right-wing extremist president in Europe since World War II.
Next year we have Germany,
France
we have the presidential election in Iran
and a dozen more.
It does not become less important.
It becomes more and more important.
Clearly, the global vote is not just a separate project.
It does not stand alone.
He has a certain background.
It’s part of a project I started since 2014,
which I have called the Good Place.
The idea of a Good Country is basically quite simple.
It’s my simple diagnosis of what’s not going on in the world
and how we can fix it.
What does not go in the world I have already hinted.
Basically, we face a large and growing number
giant, existential, global challenges:
climate change, human rights abuses,
mass migration, terrorism, economic chaos, proliferation of weapons.
All these problems that threaten to disappear
are by nature a globalized problem.
No country has the ability to handle them separately.
Without a doubt,
that we must cooperate and cooperate as nations
if we want to solve these problems.
It’s so clear and still we do not.
We do not do so often.
Most of the time, countries continue to behave
as if they are facing, as selfish tribes fighting each other,
more or less as they did when nation-states were invented
hundreds of years ago.
And that must change.
This is not a change of political systems or a change of ideologies.
This is a change in culture.
We all have to understand it
thinking from the inside does not offer solutions to the problems of the world.
We need to learn how to cooperate much more
and compete somewhat less.
Otherwise, things will continue to deteriorate
and will go much worse, much faster than we anticipate.
This change would only happen
if we ordinary people
we tell our politicians that things have changed.
We need to show them that culture has changed.
We need to tell them they have a new mandate.
The old mandate was quite simple and quite unique:
if you are in power or authority,
you are responsible for the people and for that small part of your territory,
and so.
And if, to do the best for your people,
you will trample on everyone else on the planet, even better.
This is considered a bit macho.
Today, I think everyone in a position of power and responsibility
has received a double mandate,
Who says that if you are in power and responsibility,
is responsible for your people
and for every man, woman, child or animal on this planet.
You are responsible for your part of the territory
and for every square meter of land surface
and the atmosphere above it.
And if you do not like this responsibility, then you do not have to be in power.
This is the rule of the modern era for me,
and this is the message we should give to our politicians,
and to show you that this is the way things are done today.
Otherwise, we’re all over.
In fact, I have no problem
with Donald Trump’s “First America” Credo.
It seems to me a rather banal statement
of what politicians have done and probably should always do.
Certainly they are chosen to represent the interests of their people.
But what seems so boring, old-fashioned,
and so immeasurable with regard to this capture
is that the first America means all the last ones,
making big America again will mean making everyone else small again,
and this is not true.
In my work as a policy advisor during these 20 years,
I have seen so many hundreds of policy examples
which harmonize internal and international needs,
and they are the best policy.
I do not ask the nations to become altruistic or self-sacrificial.
That would be ridiculous.
No nation should do it.
I’m looking to wake up and realize that we need a new form of governance,
which is possible
and harmonizes these two needs,
to make our people good and to do good to all others.
Since the US and Brex elections,
is becoming more and more clear to me
than the old left and right arm differences
make no sense anymore.
They do not fit the pattern.
What seems important today
it’s very easy,
if your view of the world
is that you find comfort based internally and in the past,
or if just like me, find hope to look forward and out.
This is the new policy.
This is the new division that is dividing the world in the middle.
It may sound pre-emptive, but it does not have that purpose.
I do not misunderstand at all
why there are so many people who find comfort inside and in the past.
When hard times come when you do not have much money,
when you feel insecure and unprotected,
it is the human tendency to return from within,
to think about your needs
and avoiding the needs of all others,
and maybe you start to imagine that the past was somewhat better
that the present or how the future may be.
But I believe this is an endless end.
History shows that this is an endless end.
When people return from inside and back
human progress goes back
and things get worse very quickly for everyone in fact.
If you are like me
and believe in the future and out,
believe that the best thing for mankind is its diversity
and the best thing about globalization
is the way it promotes diversity, that cultural mix
bringing something more creative, more exciting, more productive
as it has ever been in the history of humanity,
then, friends, we have a job to do,
because the brigade inside and back
have come together as never before,
and that confidence in and out,
she fear, he anxious,
who plays with the simplest instincts,
is encompassing the world.
All of us who,
just as I believe, in front and out,
we have to be organized,
because time is running very fast.
Thank you.
(Applause)
Well, as many of you know
the latest election results were as follows:
Hillary Clinton, Democrat candidate
won with a landslide
of 52% of the total votes.
Jill Stein, the Green candidate,
were ranked with a gap, the second with 19%.
Donald J. Trump, Republican candidates,
followed directly with 14%
and the remaining votes were split between the abstainers
and Gary Johnson, Liberal candidate.
(Laughter)
Now, in what parallel universe do you think I live?
Well, I do not live in a parallel universe.
I live in the world and the world has so voted.
Let me get back to you and explain what I mean.
In June this year,
I started something called “Global Score”.
And the Global Score does exactly what the name says.
For the first time in history,
allows anyone, anywhere in the world,
to vote in the elections of other states.
Now, why would you do that?
What does it mean?
Let me tell you how it works.
Entering a website,
beautiful for more,
and chooses an election process.
Here is a group that we have already covered.
Develop approximately one per month, or anywhere around.
So you can see Bulgaria, the US,
The Secretary-General of the United Nations,
Brex’s referendum there in the end.
You can choose the choices you are interested in,
and choose the candidates.
These are the candidates of the last presidential election
in the small island country of São Tomé and Príncipe,
199,000 inhabitants,
on the west coast of Africa.
And then you can see the short summary for each of the candidates
for which I hope to be quite neutral,
informative and summarized.
And when you find the candidate you like, vote for it.
These were the candidates
in the last Presidential Election in Iceland,
and so it works.
But why would you want to vote in another country’s election?
Well, it would not be a reason,
I assure you of this,
interfering with the democratic processes of another country.
It is not that purpose.
In fact, you can not,
because I usually announce the result
since the electorate of each state has already voted,
so there is no way to interfere in that process.
But most importantly,
I’m not particularly interested
in the domestic affairs of individual countries.
That’s not what we vote for.
What they proposed to make Donald J. Trump or Hillary Clinton for Americans
it’s not quite our job sincerely.
This is something that only Americans can vote for.
No, in the global vote, you only consider one aspect of it,
what is it that will lead them to the rest of us?
And this is so important because we live,
no doubt you are upset to hear them say,
in a globalized, hyper-interconnected, massively intertwined World
where the political decisions of peoples of other countries
can and will have an impact on our lives
no matter who we are, and where we live.
Like butterfly wings,
clashing on one side of the Pacific
he may seem to create a storm on the other side,
so it is with the world in which we live today
and the world of politics.
There is no longer a dividing line between domestic and international affairs.
Any country, however small,
and whether it is São Tomé and Príncipe,
can give Nelson Mandela the next
or the next Stalin.
They can pollute the atmosphere and the oceans, which belong to us all,
or they can become accountable and help all of us.
And yet, the system is so strange
because he is not in the same position as the reality of globalization.
we saw a small number of people being allowed to vote for those leaders,
even though their impact is giant
and almost universal.
How many was the number?
140 million Americans have voted
for the next US president,
and yet, as we all know, for a few weeks time,
someone will submit nuclear discharge codes
and Donald J. Trump.
if this does not affect the impact of all of us,
I do not know what else to do.
Similarly, the referendum elections for Brex,
few millions of British people voted for it,
but whatever the outcome of the vote came,
would have a significant impact
on the lives of tens, hundreds of millions of people around the world.
And yet, only a small number can vote.
What democracy is this?
Major decisions affecting us all
are placed by a relatively small number of people.
And I do not know about you,
but I do not sound so democratic.
So I’m trying to clarify it.
Like I mentioned
we do not ask for internal questions.
In fact, I address only two questions to all the candidates.
I send them the same two questions each time.
Ask, one,
if you choose, what will you do for the rest of us,
for the remainder of the seven billion who live on this planet?
The second question:
What is your vision for the future of your country in the world?
What role do you see playing?
Each candidate, I send these questions.
They do not answer it all. Let’s be clear.
I consider that if you are aligned
to become the next US president,
you are probably busy most of the time,
so I’m not quite surprised that not all answers, but many do.
Every time more and more.
And some of them give more than answers.
Some of them respond in the most enthusiastic and exciting manner
that you can imagine.
I want to say a word here about Savior Chishimba,
who was one of the candidates
in the recent presidential election in Zambia.
His answers to these two questions were essentially a 18-page dissertation
for his view on Zambia’s potential role in the world
and in the international community.
I posted it on the website so everyone can read it.
Now, Savior won the global vote,
but did not win the elections in Zambia.
So I was wondering,
what will I do with this extraordinary group of people?
I have some wonderful people here who have won the global vote.
We always make mistakes, anyway.
The one we have chosen
he is never a person elected by the local electorate.
Partially it may be because we seem to appeal to women.
But I think this can be a sign
that the local electorate is still thinking on a rather national scale.
They are still thinking very internally.
They are still asking themselves: What’s for me here? …
instead of what they should seek today,
that is, what is there for us here?
But here it is.
So suggestions, not now, please,
but send me an email if an idea comes to you
for what we can do with this amazing team of glorious losers.
(Laughter)
We have Savior Chishimba, whom I mentioned.
Kemi Halla Tómasdóttir,
which was the favorite in the Icelandic presidential election.
Some may have seen her stunning speech at TEDWomen
just a few weeks ago
where she talked about the need for more women participating in politics.
We have Maria das Neves from São Tomé and Príncipe.
We’re Hillary Clinton.
I do not know if it is available.
Kill Jill Stein.
And we have also covered the next election
for the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
We have the former Prime Minister of New Zealand,
who would be a wonderful member of the team.
I think maybe those people,
the club of glorious losers, can travel around the world
wherever there are choices
and in our modern times remind people of the need
of external thinking
and for the international consequences.
So, what’s behind the global vote?
Well, obviously,
the show Donald and Hillary is a bit difficult to follow,
but there are some other important choices that are coming.
In fact, they seem to have multiplied.
Something is going on, in the world I’m sure you’ve noticed.
And forthcoming next elections are all critical.
In just a few days,
we have the repetition of Austria’s presidential election,
with the possibility that Norbert Hofer
be done as usually described,
the first right-wing extremist president in Europe since World War II.
Next year we have Germany,
France
we have the presidential election in Iran
and a dozen more.
It does not become less important.
It becomes more and more important.
Clearly, the global vote is not just a separate project.
It does not stand alone.
He has a certain background.
It’s part of a project I started since 2014,
which I have called the Good Place.
The idea of a Good Country is basically quite simple.
It’s my simple diagnosis of what’s not going on in the world
and how we can fix it.
What does not go in the world I have already hinted.
Basically, we face a large and growing number
giant, existential, global challenges:
climate change, human rights abuses,
mass migration, terrorism, economic chaos, proliferation of weapons.
All these problems that threaten to disappear
are by nature a globalized problem.
No country has the ability to handle them separately.
Without a doubt,
that we must cooperate and cooperate as nations
if we want to solve these problems.
It’s so clear and still we do not.
We do not do so often.
Most of the time, countries continue to behave
as if they are facing, as selfish tribes fighting each other,
more or less as they did when nation-states were invented
hundreds of years ago.
And that must change.
This is not a change of political systems or a change of ideologies.
This is a change in culture.
We all have to understand it
thinking from the inside does not offer solutions to the problems of the world.
We need to learn how to cooperate much more
and compete somewhat less.
Otherwise, things will continue to deteriorate
and will go much worse, much faster than we anticipate.
This change would only happen
if we ordinary people
we tell our politicians that things have changed.
We need to show them that culture has changed.
We need to tell them they have a new mandate.
The old mandate was quite simple and quite unique:
if you are in power or authority,
you are responsible for the people and for that small part of your territory,
and so.
And if, to do the best for your people,
you will trample on everyone else on the planet, even better.
This is considered a bit macho.
Today, I think everyone in a position of power and responsibility
has received a double mandate,
Who says that if you are in power and responsibility,
is responsible for your people
and for every man, woman, child or animal on this planet.
You are responsible for your part of the territory
and for every square meter of land surface
and the atmosphere above it.
And if you do not like this responsibility, then you do not have to be in power.
This is the rule of the modern era for me,
and this is the message we should give to our politicians,
and to show you that this is the way things are done today.
Otherwise, we’re all over.
In fact, I have no problem
with Donald Trump’s “First America” Credo.
It seems to me a rather banal statement
of what politicians have done and probably should always do.
Certainly they are chosen to represent the interests of their people.
But what seems so boring, old-fashioned,
and so immeasurable with regard to this capture
is that the first America means all the last ones,
making big America again will mean making everyone else small again,
and this is not true.
In my work as a policy advisor during these 20 years,
I have seen so many hundreds of policy examples
which harmonize internal and international needs,
and they are the best policy.
I do not ask the nations to become altruistic or self-sacrificial.
That would be ridiculous.
No nation should do it.
I’m looking to wake up and realize that we need a new form of governance,
which is possible
and harmonizes these two needs,
to make our people good and to do good to all others.
Since the US and Brex elections,
is becoming more and more clear to me
than the old left and right arm differences
make no sense anymore.
They do not fit the pattern.
What seems important today
it’s very easy,
if your view of the world
is that you find comfort based internally and in the past,
or if just like me, find hope to look forward and out.
This is the new policy.
This is the new division that is dividing the world in the middle.
It may sound pre-emptive, but it does not have that purpose.
I do not misunderstand at all
why there are so many people who find comfort inside and in the past.
When hard times come when you do not have much money,
when you feel insecure and unprotected,
it is the human tendency to return from within,
to think about your needs
and avoiding the needs of all others,
and maybe you start to imagine that the past was somewhat better
that the present or how the future may be.
But I believe this is an endless end.
History shows that this is an endless end.
When people return from inside and back
human progress goes back
and things get worse very quickly for everyone in fact.
If you are like me
and believe in the future and out,
believe that the best thing for mankind is its diversity
and the best thing about globalization
is the way it promotes diversity, that cultural mix
bringing something more creative, more exciting, more productive
as it has ever been in the history of humanity,
then, friends, we have a job to do,
because the brigade inside and back
have come together as never before,
and that confidence in and out,
she fear, he anxious,
who plays with the simplest instincts,
is encompassing the world.
All of us who,
just as I believe, in front and out,
we have to be organized,
because time is running very fast.
Thank you.
(Applause)
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