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"The actively and stably benevolent people successfully seek enough power to be able to stably guide the world." "Give everyone the power to achieve their ultimate goals as far as possible without harming others." Those are political intentions and political acts.
Also, every country on Earth already has a class of people nobly bearing the burden of being in charge of everything. You cannot set out to deliberately and comprehensively change the world without encroaching upon this existing political sphere, even if you imagine The Change happening via leaderless self-organizing harmony. Either you intend to be on the throne, advising the throne, or making the throne irrelevant, and in each case, the current occupant of the throne will take a keen interest, if by some miracle you do start to make a difference.