Jiang Warns Iran Conflict, Liquidity Crunch Threaten US Dollar System
Predictive History
Transnational capital and messianic factions are deliberately driving Middle Eastern warfare and financial bubbles to sustain debt recycling through creative destruction, risking a civilizational collapse akin to the Late Bronze Age.
## Detailed walkthrough
### [00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=0s) The Iran War as an Eschatological Conflict
Professor Jiang opens the New York City meet-up to applause, setting expectations for an informal, seminar-style lecture where attendees are treated like students and encouraged to interrupt with questions. He establishes the premise of the night's discussion: analyzing why the war in Iran started and where it is headed. Crucially, he argues that the conflict cannot be understood through traditional realist political theory—it is not merely about natural resources, geography, or conventional balance-of-power dynamics. Instead, he characterizes it fundamentally as an "eschatological war."
To lay out this thesis, Jiang builds his framework not from rigid academic dogma but from intuitive game theory. He invites the packed room to push back whenever an idea fails the test of common sense, emphasizing that debate and active dialogue are central to uncovering how transnational power structures actually function.
```mermaid
flowchart LR
accTitle: The Tripartite Global Economy and Dollar Recycling
accDescr: Flow diagram showing how energy moves from the GCC to East Asian manufacturing, then to Western consumers, with US dollars recycling back into the American financial system.
subgraph Energy["1. Cheap Energy Hub"]
GCC["GCC / Middle East"]
end
subgraph Manufacturing["2. Industrial Hub"]
EA["East Asia"]
end
subgraph Consumption["3. Financial & Consumption Hub"]
US["The West / United States"]
end
GCC -->|"Energy exports"| EA
EA -->|"Manufactured goods"| US
US -->|"USD recycling & debt"| GCC
US -->|"USD recycling & debt"| EA
```
---
[01:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=92s) The Tripartite Global Economy and the Dollar System
Jiang begins by mapping out the global macroeconomic engine as a simplified three-part circuit undergirded by the US dollar serving as the global reserve currency:
1. **The GCC (Middle East):** Extracts and sells cheap hydrocarbons and energy priced in US dollars.
2. **East Asia:** Purchases that energy, operates as the world's primary manufacturing workshop, and turns raw resources into consumer goods.
3. **The West (predominantly the United States):** Consumes those manufactured goods, importing products while exporting US dollars.
The entire loop depends on "dollar recycling": the profits earned by energy producers in the Gulf and manufacturers in East Asia flow back into the American financial core. While this arrangement has solidified the status of the US dollar as the preeminent reserve currency—an arrangement Jiang notes is historically unprecedented—he argues it has proved catastrophic for the American nation-state itself.
Jiang identifies three foundational structural flaws that have hollowed out the domestic United States under this arrangement:
- **Loss of Financial Independence & The Eurodollar System:** The US must guarantee frictionless, global capital mobility. This created the massive offshore Eurodollar market—dollars generated, lent, and circulated entirely outside the regulatory borders of the United States. Jiang highlights that authorities cannot even calculate how many offshore dollars exist or properly control their circulation.
- **Financialization and Domestic Rot:** To anchor global trade, the domestic US shifted away from manufacturing and resource extraction toward pure financial speculation. This transition generated three toxic byproducts:
- *Washington Corruption:* Regulatory policy captured by political bribery and special interests.
- *Extreme Inequality:* Contrasting the hyper-wealthy enclaves of Pacific Palisades and $100 million mansions against Skid Row addiction in Southern California.
- *Perpetual Indebtedness:* Everyday Americans are structurally pushed into debt simply to generate the aggregate demand needed to keep the global supply chain humming.
- **Pax Americana and the Bloated Military Budget:** Guaranteeing globalized commerce requires guaranteeing open, secure maritime sea lanes. Jiang argues that the US does not realistically require a conventional defensive military of this size because natural ocean barriers and domestic gun ownership deter foreign invasion. Yet, underwriting global peace requires an exorbitant defense apparatus consuming around $1.5 trillion annually, absorbing tax wealth that could otherwise fund universal healthcare or tuition-free higher education.
---
[07:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=441s) Audience Q&A: Eurodollars, Defense Realities, and the K-Shaped Economy
Jiang opens the floor to questions, leading to a rapid-fire exchange on domestic winners, military necessity, and structural breakdown:
- **Who Actually Benefits from the Dollar Hegemony?** When asked who gains from this setup if the domestic public suffers, Jiang answers plainly: Wall Street. The domestic financial hierarchy reaps enormous wealth by orchestrating offshore and domestic capital flows, which is why the system remains vigorously defended by political elites.
- **Why Can't the Eurodollar Supply Be Counted?** An audience member asks why economists cannot determine how many dollars exist abroad. Jiang clarifies that modern money is not physical paper; it is digital credit created instantaneously on bank computer screens. Commercial banking institutions have the autonomous power to issue credit and ledger money out of thin air, compounded by off-balance-sheet vehicles and counterfeit capital.
- **Invasion Deterrence and Geography:** A participant asks whether Jiang’s claim that America faces no threat of invasion relies solely on Western Hemisphere geography. Jiang agrees that the Atlantic and Pacific oceans provide an unmatched natural defense, but adds a second pragmatic obstacle: the prevalence of privately owned firearms. "There’s no military, but like you come and invade America, guess what? You'll be fighting for every street corner... It's just pain in the ass. Why would you do it?"
- **Physical Symptoms of Systemic Collapse:** When pressed for tangible, real-world symptoms proving that the system is breaking down, Jiang points to the aftermath of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis. Rather than bailing out distressed homeowners—which Jiang notes would have revitalized domestic economic efficiency—Washington chose regulatory capture and bailed out Wall Street. This choice institutionalized a permanent "K-shaped economy," cementing a direct divergence where asset holders pull away while the working base stagnates.
- **The True Beneficiaries of the Pentagon Budget:** An attendee asks who directly pockets the vast defense budget. Jiang points to the suburbs ringing Washington, DC, such as Fairfax County and Alexandria, Virginia. He highlights Loudoun County, Virginia—one of the wealthiest counties in the nation—pointing out that its per capita income roughly tripled from $30,000 to around $90,000 in the two decades following the launch of the Global War on Terror, fueled directly by defense contracting and the military-industrial complex.
[11:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=686s) The Economics of Financialization and Audience Q&A
Professor Jiang responds to an audience question regarding why financialization inevitably generates wealth inequality. Citing Thomas Piketty’s *Capital in the Twenty-First Century*, Jiang outlines the core thesis: for capital to be truly lucrative, it naturally consolidates. Once consolidated, the returns on pure capital vastly outstrip the returns from tangible productive labor. If an entrepreneur opens a physical factory, they might achieve a modest return of roughly 2% annually. In contrast, financialized markets easily yield 5% or more per year. Under such mechanics, the wealthy compound their gains while the poor fall behind.
An audience member challenges this premise, noting that earlier lectures framed the American founding around private property incentives and open capital accounts rather than an ethnostate. The questioner argues that the pathologies Jiang describes—inequality, class divergence, and chronic warfare—have plagued every civilization since before Homer, suggesting the modern United States is merely a different iteration of a historical paradigm rather than an exceptional case. Jiang laughs it off, apologizing and joking that he momentarily forgot he was speaking in New York City rather than in China, and promises to address the topic later in the lecture.
A second audience member asks about the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), pointing out that GCC capital accounts for only about 1% to 2% of the US stock market, questioning how their divestment could trigger a profound crisis. Jiang clarifies that dollar recycling is not confined to publicly traded equities; petrodollars and East Asian capital flow into US real estate, private equity, and hedge funds, which represent vast sectors outside standard stock market indexes.
- Piketty’s *Capital in the Twenty-First Century* demonstrates that capital returns consistently exceed real labor returns (e.g., 5% in financial markets versus 2% in factory production).
- Dollar recycling from the GCC and East Asia operates primarily through sovereign wealth, hedge funds, and US real estate rather than strictly the public equity markets.
---
[14:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=854s) The Spiral of the Iran War and Regional Chokepoints
Jiang turns to the ongoing war in Iran, tracing how initial American war planning broke down into a wider regional quagmire. Washington’s initial military doctrine relied on a quick decapitation strike: eliminate top regime leadership with the naive expectation that the Iranian populace would rise in rebellion to embrace Western-style democracy, human rights, and "OnlyFans." Instead, the Iranian state proved exceptionally resilient and enacted effective counter-strategies, starting with closing the Strait of Hormuz. Because the vast bulk of energy passing through Hormuz feeds East Asian industries, this immediate supply disruption bottlenecks the entire global manufacturing architecture.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: Middle East Four-Point Chokepoint Strategy
accDescr: Flowchart illustrating how Iranian regional allies choke off Middle Eastern sea lanes and energy infrastructure.
subgraph Chokepoints["Regional Bottlenecks"]
Hormuz["Strait of Hormuz<br/>(Iran disrupts oil to East Asia)"]
Bab["Bab el-Mandeb<br/>(Houthis choke Red Sea shipping)"]
Levant["Northern Front<br/>(Hezbollah engages Israel)"]
Gaza["Southern Front<br/>(Hamas anchors conflict)"]
end
subgraph Support["External Supply Lifelines"]
Russia["Russia<br/>(Caspian Sea maritime routes)"]
China["China<br/>(Belt and Road rail networks)"]
end
The conflict quickly metastasized across multiple fronts. In the south, the Houthis severed maritime access through the Bab el-Mandeb strait, placing acute pressure on Saudi Arabia. With Hezbollah clashing with Israel, combat flaring across Iraq, and Hamas engaged, Iran engineered a synchronized four-front containment strategy that chokes Middle Eastern commerce. When GCC states propose building cross-desert bypass pipelines, Jiang dismisses the idea as desperate and unfeasible: pipelines require billions of dollars and years to construct, and large, exposed infrastructure makes far easier drone targets than mobile container ships. Furthermore, Iran cannot be starved out externally because Russia sustains it across the Caspian Sea, while China guarantees logistics through overland Belt and Road Initiative railway links.
- Decapitation doctrine failed because it underestimated domestic Iranian cohesion and preparedness.
- The closure of the Strait of Hormuz primarily targets East Asian energy supplies, dismantling global supply networks.
- A trilateral defense alignment between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan seeks to counter the Houthi threat, but faces widespread drone vulnerabilities.
- Caspian Sea routes (Russia) and overland trans-Eurasian railways (China) make a total naval blockade of Iran impossible.
---
[17:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=1066s) The Yen Carry Trade and US Domestic Vulnerability
Jiang connects the escalating Middle Eastern war directly to systemic fragility inside the American economy via the Japanese financial system. Japan is the largest foreign creditor of the United States, holding $1.1 trillion in US Treasuries and serving as the primary liquidity engine for global finance. For decades, this dynamic functioned through the yen carry trade: Japanese domestic banks offered near 0% interest rates to stimulate a deflationary economy. Rather than reinvesting domestically, Japanese institutions borrowed trillions in zero-cost yen and purchased US Treasuries yielding 5%, pocketing the spread. This mechanism injected an estimated $4 trillion of foreign liquidity into American capital markets.
This entire financial architecture unravels as Middle Eastern energy supplies get cut off. Because resource-poor Japan imports nearly all its petroleum from the Persian Gulf, soaring oil prices batter the Japanese yen. If the Bank of Japan is forced to raise rates and unwind the carry trade to defend the collapsing yen, trillions in liquidity will instantly exit US markets. Jiang warns that this dynamic would be catastrophic for the United States, where approximately 50% of recent GDP growth is concentrated in a speculative capital bubble surrounding artificial intelligence and data center construction. Without continuous offshore capital inflows from Japan, China, and the GCC, the US financial bubble faces severe contraction.
- Japan holds $1.1 trillion in US sovereign debt and provides roughly $4 trillion in global liquidity through the carry trade.
- Carry trade mechanics: borrowing yen at 0% to capture 5% yields on US Treasuries.
- Extreme Japanese dependency on Persian Gulf crude makes the yen hyper-sensitive to Middle Eastern conflict.
- Artificial intelligence data centers account for roughly 50% of current US GDP expansion, leaving the economy uniquely exposed to sudden liquidity shocks.
---
[20:03](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=1203s) Jiang’s Two-Step Solution: A Plaza Accord for Iran and Containing Israel
Jiang posits that the United States could resolve the war immediately and stabilize its domestic balance sheet by executing two strategic moves. The first step is counterintuitive: Washington should grant Iran $2 trillion in direct capital transfers, mirroring the macroeconomic playbook used against Tokyo in the 1985 Plaza Accord. During the 1980s, an export-heavy Japan hoarded global liquidity with an undervalued yen; the Plaza Accord forced yen appreciation, enabling Japanese firms to acquire foreign real estate while subjecting Japan’s domestic economy to three decades of stagnation and deflation.
By injecting $2 trillion into Iran, the US would force the Iranian economy into the dollar recycling orbit. Because the funds are denominated in US dollars, Tehran would ultimately return that capital to American corporations to acquire heavy machinery, repair vital infrastructure, and expand petroleum exports. This capital cycle would simultaneously integrate Iran into global markets and enrich US contractors.
The essential second step is actively containing Israel. Acknowledging groans and murmurs from the audience, Jiang insists that regional stability requires Washington to curb Israeli military unilateralism. He argues the US must institute a strict weapons embargo to halt recurrent regional flare-ups and enforce an enduring geopolitical compromise.
- **Step 1:** Transfer $2 trillion to Iran, utilizing the 1985 Plaza Accord model to induce long-term financial dependency and dollar recycling while funding reconstruction via US contractors.
- **Step 2:** Place a strict arms embargo on Israel to halt destabilizing regional military operations.
[22:39](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=1359s) The Geopolitical Anomaly and the Eschatological War
Professor Jiang sets up what he considers the central paradox of modern geopolitics: if two simple actions were taken to de-escalate the Middle East, global peace could prevail and the international economy would be spared, yet everyone knows that will never happen. Instead, the fate of eight billion human beings is held hostage by a tiny state of nine million people tucked away in the desert—a nation so physically small it is hard to pinpoint on a regional map. The United States, despite being the undisputed global superpower, appears entirely incapable of asserting or defending its own national interests. Instead, Washington subordinates its strategic welfare to advance the agenda of this small nation, ignoring catastrophic economic fallout that Jiang characterizes as threatening "the end of civilization basically."
Jiang insists that conventional geopolitical and economic models completely fail to account for this dynamic. The current conflict, he argues, only becomes intelligible when viewed through an eschatological lens. It is an intentional push to trigger the biblical end times:
> "The main argument I want to make to you today is this war makes no sense unless you look at it from an eschatological perspective. This war is meant to usher in the end times. This war is meant to bring in the Messiah if you're Jewish and to have Jesus return if you're Christian. That's the only explanation for what's going on."
An audience member pushes back, asking why Islam—specifically Iranian Shia and Sunni millenarianism—is omitted from this framework. Jiang clarifies that while Shia martyrdom and theological fervor certainly exist in Iran, religious fanatics represent only a minority of the population. In Tehran, the administrative bureaucrats and intellectual classes are largely secular. He notes that the same demographic reality applies to Israel, where roughly 40 percent of the population is secular. The tragedy of modern history is that foreign policy across the United States, Israel, and Iran is being hijacked and dictated by disciplined, fanatical minorities working within their respective political systems to fulfill prophecy.
[26:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=1574s) The Accidental Origins of Capitalism: Calvinism and Double Predestination
Pivoting from the Middle Eastern crisis to the deeper structural roots of the current world system, Jiang challenges the common assumption that free-market capitalism represents the natural or inevitable apex of human economic organization. Instead, he argues, capitalism was an accidental byproduct resulting from a convergence of specific theological and political shocks in early modern Europe.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: The Three Historical Accidents of Capitalism
accDescr: Flowchart illustrating the evolution of modern capitalism from Calvinist predestination to the Bank of England's infinite financing model.
subgraph Calvinist_Theology ["1. Calvinism & Predestination"]
A["Rejection of Catholic Indulgences"] --> B["Double Predestination Anxiety"]
B --> C["Ascetic Accumulation:<br>Work hard, produce wealth, never spend"]
end
subgraph Dutch_Hegemony ["2. Dutch Capital Formation"]
C --> D["Dutch Republic & Spice Monopoly"]
D --> E["Vulnerability to Habsburg Invasions"]
end
subgraph British_Finance ["3. English Institutional Fusion"]
E -->|"Glorious Revolution (1688)"| F["Transfer of Dutch Wealth to England"]
F --> G["Bank of England (1694):<br>Lending to Parliament, not the King"]
G --> H["Infinite Financing & British Global Empire"]
end
```
The first accident was the Protestant Reformation, specifically the rise of Calvinism and its central dogma of double predestination. Conceived as a rhetorical assault on the Roman Catholic Church's lucrative indulgence racket—where wealthy sinners could buy papal absolution and entry into heaven—John Calvin asserted that God had already determined every soul's eternal fate at the dawn of creation. The Church held no power over salvation.
However, removing the clergy's power of absolution created acute psychological distress: believers were tortured by the question of whether they belonged to the elect or the damned. To alleviate this anxiety, Calvinist culture adopted the belief that worldly financial success served as tangible proof of divine favor. Yet, unlike past aristocrats who spent windfalls on feasts, palaces, and communal prestige, Calvinist doctrine forbade hedonistic spending and ostentatious displays:
- Believers were religiously obligated to labor incessantly and accumulate vast fortunes.
- Simultaneously, moral austerity prevented them from consuming or spending their wealth.
- Denied the outlet of consumption, merchants had only one rational recourse: reinvesting surplus capital into productive enterprise.
This ascetic reinvestment cycle gave birth to the Dutch Republic's commercial golden age. Channeling accumulated domestic savings into state-backed maritime ventures, the Dutch secured a global monopoly over the lucrative spice trade, created the world's first true middle class, and became the wealthiest society on earth.
[30:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=1859s) The 1688 Glorious Revolution and the Bank of England
The Dutch economic miracle soon ran into a severe geopolitical vulnerability. Formerly a possession of the Catholic Habsburg Empire, the wealthy, low-lying Dutch Republic faced constant continental invasions from Catholic rivals seeking to plunder its riches. To safeguard their accumulated capital, Dutch merchant elites orchestrated the second historical accident: the Glorious Revolution of 1688. By installing the Dutch Stadtholder William of Orange onto the English throne alongside Mary, the commercial oligarchy wedded Dutch financial capital to the defensive security of the British Isles, insulated behind the protective moat of the English Channel and the Royal Navy.
This Anglo-Dutch fusion produced the third decisive accident in 1694: the chartering of the Bank of England. Jiang points out how radically this institution broke from prior financial history:
- **Monarchical lending risk eliminated:** Historically, private financiers lent to monarchs at extreme peril; kings routinely died in battle, lost campaigns, or simply defaulted on debts by royal decree.
- **Sovereign debt backed by the public:** The Bank of England was established as a private syndicate lending directly to Parliament rather than the monarch, effectively mortgaging the entire English population as collateral. As Jiang puts it, "as long as there's one Englishman alive, that person has to pay you back."
- **The engine of infinite financing:** This structural innovation gave the British state unprecedented borrowing capacity, allowing it to raise endless capital for global warfare.
Jiang highlights the Napoleonic Wars to illustrate the strategic dominance of this financial architecture. While Napoleon repeatedly outmaneuvered and crushed British-led coalitions across European battlefields—winning six successive coalition wars—the Bank of England simply printed money, issued bonds, and funded fresh armies among the Prussians, Austrians, and Russians. Britain lost battle after battle, but because it had access to continuous debt financing, it only needed to win the final engagement at Waterloo to inherit global empire. This institutional model ultimately served as the blueprint for the American Federal Reserve and the modern apparatus of transnational capitalism.
[03:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=229s) Historical Accidents and the Logic of Usury
Professor Jiang emphasizes that the institutional milestones paving the way for the American empire—Calvinism, the Glorious Revolution, and the creation of the Bank of England—were not parts of a centuries-long strategic conspiracy. Rather, they were "historical accidents," pragmatic, ad-hoc maneuvers engineered to resolve immediate crises as they arose. However, once such accidents solidify into structural reality, an ideological apparatus becomes necessary. A society must construct accompanying philosophies, religious frameworks, and bureaucratic institutions to justify, administer, and normalize them.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: Historical Accidents to Institutional Justification
accDescr: Flowchart showing how unplanned historical accidents required ideological and secret structures to justify and manage transnational capitalism.
subgraph ACCIDENTS["Historical Accidents (Ad-Hoc Crises)"]
A1["Calvinist Theological Shift"]
A2["1688 Glorious Revolution"]
A3["1694 Bank of England Charter"]
end
subgraph SYSTEM["Transnational Capitalism"]
C["Total Dominance over Traditional Orders"]
end
ACCIDENTS --> APPARATUS
APPARATUS --> SYSTEM
```
An audience member interrupts to ask about money lending: why has the practice of lending at interest been consistently accommodated, deregulated, and expanded over time, given that historically religions heavily discouraged or outright prohibited it? Jiang confirms that almost all world religions historically treated usury as an existential poison. Religious traditions banned usury because it was recognized as the single most corrosive and destabilizing element in human civilization, invariably causing economic ruin and societal collapse. He notes that Judaism occupied an exceptional position in this landscape by banning usury internally among fellow Jews while permitting interest-bearing loans to Gentiles. Everywhere else, usury was outlawed due to its sheer social volatility.
Addressing another audience member's hesitation regarding whether pivotal moments like the founding of the Bank of England were truly "accidents," Jiang clarifies his terminology: they were "accidents" because they lacked grand strategic foresight, existing merely as reactive policy solutions to immediate contemporary dilemmas.
[35:44](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=2144s) The Structural Contradiction of Democracy and Private Property
With capitalism established through these historical contingencies, the ruling elite needed thinkers to rationalize the new economic order to the populace. Jiang identifies the first major philosophical fiction manufactured for this purpose: the supposed harmony between democracy and private property. While modern Americans take the pairing for granted as natural bedfellows, Jiang insists that from a purely structural and logical standpoint, the two concepts are diametrically opposed. Democracy signifies literal rule by the demos; if a democratic majority votes to confiscate and redistribute wealth, genuine popular sovereignty dictates that they should be entirely free to do so.
Private property, by contrast, operates on the logic of oligarchy. It elevates wealth ownership into an untouchable, God-given, inalienable right immune to collective interference. Jiang traces this contradiction back to the founding of the Bank of England, a private corporation whose debts and paper currency were backed by the public tax base. To smooth over this tension, the system devised an ideological compromise: the public was granted nominal democratic enfranchisement under the condition that they collectively agreed never to touch private property. Democracy became the popular rubber stamp preserving an oligarchic core.
[37:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=2248s) The Ideological Invention: Splitting Reason from Emotion
Jiang introduces a second conceptual pivot: the artificial modern separation between reason and emotion. Across nearly all pre-modern civilizations, human thought never operated under this dichotomy. In ancient Greek thought as well as classical Chinese philosophy, the heart and mind were indivisible—reflected in the Chinese formulation where "the heart is the mind" (心). Jiang points out that modern neuroscience validates this traditional synthesis: memories are fundamentally emotional impressions, and those memories constitute the building blocks of cognition.
```mermaid
flowchart LR
accTitle: The Subversion of Reason and Emotion Under Capital
accDescr: Diagram illustrating the modern translation of Reason into Capital and Emotion into traditional human bonds.
subgraph SURFACE["Enlightenment Rhetoric"]
R["Reason"]
E["Emotion"]
end
subgraph REALITY["Material Subtext"]
C["Transnational Capital<br/>(Frictionless movement of goods, labor, and finance)"]
T["Human Attachments<br/>(Family, Church, Nation, Local Community)"]
end
R -->|"Translates to"| C
E -->|"Dismissed as"| T
C -->|"Dismantles / Liquidates"| T
```
The motivation behind establishing such a counterintuitive intellectual division lay in the concealed subtext of the terms themselves:
- **"Reason"** was drafted as code for **Capital**.
- **"Emotion"** became a catch-all category for traditional attachments: **family, community, tradition, religion, and nationhood**.
For transnational capital to achieve global dominion, it mandates the frictionless circulation of goods, labor, and wealth across borders. Any cultural, spiritual, or communal bond that impedes this fluid mobility is treated as an inefficient friction, pathologized, and dismissed as irrational "emotion." When an audience member remarks that the French Revolution enthroned Reason as God while classical Greek gods acted through human passions, Jiang affirms the parallel and promises to demonstrate how this progression culminated in the modern world.
[40:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=2431s) The Public Philosophies and the Secret Architecture of Freemasonry
Propagating the hegemony of transnational capital required a dual-track strategy featuring both an open ideological front and a covert organizational network:
- **The Public Layer:** Formal Enlightenment philosophies engineered to justify the system under intellectual banners—empiricism, skepticism, and utilitarianism—represented by figures such as John Locke, David Hume, and Jeremy Bentham.
- **The Secret Layer:** The institutional machinery of Freemasonry, which functioned as the operative esoteric religion of the new order.
Jiang points to prominent Masonic thinkers such as Albert Pike (*Morals and Dogma*) and Manly P. Hall, highlighting their recurrent invocation of the "holy empire of reason." Decoded through materialist analysis, this phrase translates directly to the "holy empire of capital." Freemasonry provided an invisible management structure to organize, coordinate, and execute policy behind the democratic spectacle.
This transformation thoroughly overhauled human social cognition:
- Historically, the foundational question upon meeting a stranger was communal and lineage-based: *"Where are you from?"*, *"Who is your father?"*, or *"Which god do you worship?"*
- Under the hegemony of capital, the primary metric of human value shifted to: *"How much money do you have?"*
While democracy was offered to the public as a placating facade to secure their consent for banker rule, Freemasonry operated behind the curtain as the actual management system steering the vessel.
[42:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=2566s) Game Theory, Institutional Atrophy, and the Arc toward Communism
In response to an audience question asking whether historic religious bodies like the Roman Catholic Church resisted this Masonic-capitalist consolidation or colluded with it, Jiang frames the dynamic through game theory. Transnational capital emerged as the most formidable, ruthlessly optimizing power in modern history. The strategic calculus was binary: institutions that aligned with and facilitated capital survived and accumulated influence, while those attempting to defy it were methodically broken and marginalized.
Over the last two centuries, institutions rooted in place and traditional loyalty—monarchies, local agrarian communities, and the Catholic Church—inexorably withered under capital's relentless expansion. Jiang points to modern border debates and mass migrations across Western Europe and the United States as organic outcomes of this dynamic: transnational capitalism aggressively demands the unimpeded, borderless migration of labor and consumer markets, automatically treating national borders or cultural preservationists as enemies of progress.
Jiang maps out the historical progression of this momentum:
1. **The Enlightenment:** The intellectual and political opening salvo of transnational capitalism, championing the universal deregulation of ideas, trade, and human movement.
2. **The French Revolution:** The violent political manifestation of Enlightenment principles, actively dismantling traditional feudal and ecclesiastical institutions.
3. **The Rise of Communism:** A logical escalation rather than a fundamental departure. Jiang notes that high-degree Masonic thinkers frequently viewed communism with profound admiration, recognizing it as the absolute triumph of pure instrumental "reason" over traditional sentimentality, subordinating the organic bonds of human life to rationalized material planning.
[45:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=2716s) The March of Human Reason and Transnational Capital
The past two to three centuries, Professor Jiang argues, represent the "relentless march of human reason of capital," mutating across different political and historical guises. Whether manifesting as the French Revolution, communism, or modern capitalism, each ideology functions by elevating cold, calculating rationality above traditional human anchors: family, community, emotion, love, and nationalism. Communism itself is characterized as this very subordination of organic social ties to mechanistic reason.
Behind this modern capitalist machinery sits Freemasonry as its hidden organizational infrastructure. To understand this dynamic, one must examine what transnational capital actually confronts when operating across sovereign nation-states. Moving money and power across borders creates friction, and transnational actors realized early on that triumph depended on solving three fundamental operational challenges:
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: The Triad of Transnational Capital
accDescr: Diagram illustrating the three structural problems solved by secret societies for transnational capital.
subgraph Problems["Challenges of Transnational Capital"]
INF["1. Information<br/>(Access speed)"]
INFIL["2. Infiltration<br/>(Embedded agents)"]
COORD["3. Coordination<br/>(Cross-border alignment)"]
end
subgraph Solution["Organizational Convergence"]
SS["Secret Societies<br/>(Freemasons, Jesuits, Diaspora)"]
end
INF --> SS
INFIL --> SS
COORD --> SS
SS -->|"Produces"| ADV["Systemic Advantage & Dominance"]
```
- **Information**: Securing vital commercial and political intelligence faster than anyone else in the market.
- **Infiltration**: Planting loyal operatives into sensitive institutions and state structures to siphon critical data.
- **Coordination**: Aligning actions across disparate borders and jurisdictions to consistently rig the game in one's favor.
[46:31](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=2791s) The Rothschild Playbook and the Three Transnational Forces
To illustrate how these three mechanisms function in the real world, Professor Jiang points to the house of Rothschild. With family branches dispersed across European capitals—Frankfurt, London, and Paris—they had engineered an unparalleled intelligence apparatus. During the decisive Battle of Waterloo in 1815, where the British and the Prussians faced off against Napoleon, the Rothschilds stationed their own dedicated observers at the battlefield. The moment Napoleon's defeat was sealed, a Rothschild courier dashed to a fast naval corvette, raced across the English Channel, and delivered the outcome to the family in London a full three days before the British government or public had any official news. During those three days of information blackout, rumors swirled that the British had been crushed, triggering wild market panic and market opportunities that the family exploited.
Overcoming the friction of nation-states requires secret societies, which naturally emerged out of the three primary transnational forces active in Europe at the time: the Freemasons, the Jesuits, and the Jewish diaspora. When these distinct networks began pooling their leverage, they formed the nexus often identified as the Illuminati.
Addressing the audience's assumptions, Professor Jiang cautions against viewing this convergence as a comic-book conspiracy concocted in a smoky room. Rather than a top-down, monolithic conspiracy, secret societies function as natural points of convergence for self-interested elites across institutions:
- Within large bodies like the Catholic Church, factions are continually split between pro-transnational and anti-transnational capital interests.
- Secret societies provide an elite network layer where members coordinate behind the scenes, creating immense structural advantages over non-members.
- A standard civil servant remains an ordinary bureaucrat for life, but a bureaucrat embedded within a secret society receives promotions from lodge brothers, gains lucrative insider investment opportunities, and secures admissions for their children into the world's most elite universities.
[49:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=2980s) Eschatology as the Ultimate Evolutionary Advantage
An attendee raises a question about the institutional casualties of this network coordination: which established institutions lost out, and does the historical record show a linear lineage of degradation?
Jiang pushes back against popular conspiratorial narratives that trace an unbroken bloodline from the Knights Templar to the Freemasons to the Rosicrucians. In his analysis, secret societies are not a single ancient dynasty; they are the spontaneous, organic byproduct of transnational capitalism. They frequently sprout around a single charismatic figure—such as the founders of Yale's Skull and Bones—attracting ambitious people drawn to that leader's success. However, these organizations inevitably decay over time: members grow arrogant, their spoiled children inherit the network without the competence of the founders, and the society eventually disintegrates to make room for rivals.
The only secret societies that survive across generations and maintain supreme power are those that are explicitly **eschatological**. An organization founded merely to get rich and enjoy worldly pleasures lacks endurance. In contrast, a society convinced it is serving God, ushering in the end times, and building paradise on earth possesses decisive structural advantages:
- **A multi-century script**: An eschatological mission provides a theological roadmap that can be enacted over centuries, completely surviving the death of any single charismatic founder.
- **Scalability**: An apocalyptic narrative allows the movement to scale broadly and recruit across diverse demographics.
- **Fanatical energy**: True believers act with the ferocious momentum of a religious jihad, genuinely believing their actions are bringing about the redemption of the world.
Among eschatological secret societies, Jiang notes, those practicing the Kabbalah have historically proven to be the most durable and effective. In Albert Pike's Scottish Rite manual *Morals and Dogma*, Freemasonry presents itself as a universal religion of reason, attempting to absorb ancient Egyptian mysteries and Pythagorean philosophy at its introductory levels while reserving Kabbalistic metaphysics for the highest echelons.
[52:54](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=3174s) Reason vs. Emotion and the Mechanics of the Kabbalah
Responding to an audience question asking why the founders of Freemasonry chose to elevate reason above emotion, Jiang stresses that this was not an abstract philosophical epiphany, but an ideological tool tailored to solve a material problem. To legitimize and expand transnational capital, merchant elites needed a framework that decoupled finance from traditional taboos. Reason was equated with capital, profit-making, and progress, whereas emotion was equated with religious dogma, local prejudice, and restrictions that hindered trade (such as prohibitions on usury). Reason became the intellectual battering ram used to dismantle local cultural resistance to global capital.
Jiang then summarizes the metaphysical architecture of the Kabbalah:
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: Kabbalistic Cosmogony and Eschatological Script
accDescr: Flowchart illustrating the Kabbalistic origin of the universe, cosmic rupture, and the apocalyptic blueprint for redemption.
subgraph Cosmogony["Kabbalistic Metaphysics"]
GOD["God<br/>(Will to Bestow)"] -->|"Creates"| ADAM["Adam Kadmon<br/>(Will to Receive)"]
ADAM -->|"Rejects Gift / Egotism"| FRACTURE["Cosmic Rupture<br/>(The Separation)"]
FRACTURE -->|"Spiritual Alchemy"| TIKKUN["Enlightenment & Reconciliation"]
end
subgraph Script["Radical Biblical Script"]
RET["1. Jewish Return to Israel"]
TEMPLE["2. Rebuilding the Third Temple"]
WAR["3. War of Gog and Magog"]
REPENT["4. Repentance & Divine Salvation"]
RET --> TEMPLE --> WAR --> REPENT
end
TIKKUN -.->|"Enacted Through"| Script
```
In Kabbalistic thought, God is defined as the pure "will to bestow"—an infinitely generous essence seeking an object upon which to pour His gifts. Because nothing else existed, God created Adam Kadmon, the primordial cosmic man, as the "will to receive." However, operating purely as the will to receive, this creation viewed existence through an egotistical lens, unable to grasp the selfless nature of God's benevolence, and subsequently rejected the divine gift. This rejection fractured the cosmic vessels of the universe, casting humanity into separation from the divine source. The ultimate purpose of cosmic history is therefore spiritual alchemy: elevating human consciousness through enlightenment so that humanity can properly receive God's gifts and repair the fracture.
While this cosmology can be interpreted symbolically, Jiang points out that radical factions take it entirely literally, synthesizing it with biblical prophecy into an actionable, real-world geopolitical playbook:
- The Jewish people must first return from exile to the land of Israel to fulfill the ancient covenant with God.
- They must rebuild the Third Temple in Jerusalem to create a physical resting place for the divine presence.
- Constructing the Temple triggers the catastrophic end-times War of Gog and Magog.
- Brought to the brink of existential annihilation, the people open their hearts, genuinely repent, and induce God to intervene directly, vanquishing their enemies and redeeming the world.
[56:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=3403s) Kabbalah, End-Times Eroticism, and the Logic of Apocalypse
Professor Jiang outlines how messianic factions interpret their geopolitical role literally, linking current events in the Middle East directly to eschatological scripture. Addressing the ongoing violence in Gaza, he asserts that Israel is intentionally committing atrocities openly and broadcast "in 4K" because the goal is for the entire world to witness it. In this apocalyptic worldview, broadcasting such devastation is designed to trigger the biblical War of Gog and Magog. The resulting global surge in antisemitism is seen as a necessary catalyst to force the Jewish diaspora to repent, unite, return to God, rebuild the Third Temple, and bring about the end of the world.
Jiang argues that the underlying power of Kabbalistic mysticism lies in an intense, unleashed sexual energy and desire. He explains that the theological concept of reunification with the divine—returning to a God from whom humanity was separated—is framed as a supreme sexual union. He points to public figures as an illustration of this psychological state, bringing up Pete Hegseth during press briefings: Jiang observes that when Hegseth talks about war, he appears ecstatic, "almost like he's having an orgy" or "an orgasm." To Jiang, this emotional charge reveals an obsession with esoteric end-times theology, where proponents view mass violence through an eroticized lens of being "so close to becoming one with God."
An audience member intervenes, expressing deep confusion and dismay at the idea that killing and bloodshed could ever bring anyone closer to God, calling it the exact opposite of love. Jiang acknowledges that from an intuitive and moral standpoint it makes no sense. When asked why people cannot simply open their hearts to God individually, Jiang answers bluntly: "It's too goddamn slow, man." While one person might undergo an internal spiritual awakening, their neighbor or their community will not. To fulfill the apocalyptic vision of Kabbalah, universal transformation is required, which necessitates manufacturing extreme global catastrophe so that humanity is forced into it all at once.
---
[59:15](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=3555s) Fanaticism, Sacrifice, and Political Leverage
An audience member shares personal reflections from growing up in a devout household, recalling childhood skepticism toward the doctrine of a single "chosen people," which intuitively felt like worshiping a "false god." Jiang agrees that messianic Judaism and related dogmas contain obvious logical fallacies, but he emphasizes that historical reality is completely indifferent to abstract logic or fairness. Power is not wielded by who is rational or morally correct, but by whoever is willing to sacrifice themselves and work ruthlessly to impose their will. These actors may appear completely insane to the public, but their extreme commitment is precisely why they dominate geopolitical structures.
To illustrate how religious zealots subordinate life to eschatological acceleration, Jiang references an incident involving an apparent attack outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., where two Christian volunteers were targeted. He notes online commentary suggesting that some Christian Zionists welcome martyrdom if they believe their deaths help accelerate the return of Christ and the Zionist timeline. For such true believers, physical death is trivial compared to hastening the divine plan.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: The Mechanics of Fanatical Political Leverage
accDescr: Diagram showing how messianic conviction and financial dominance convert fanaticism into unassailable political leverage.
subgraph Zeal ["Belief & Sacrifice"]
A["Messianic Theological Goal"] --> B["Willingness to Martyr / Sacrifice"]
end
subgraph Power ["Political Realpolitik"]
B --> C["Absolute Single-Issue Focus"]
C --> D["Disproportionate Capital Deployment<br/>(e.g., AIPAC Spending)"]
D --> E["Elimination of Dissent in Congress<br/>(Massie, Michigan Primaries)"]
end
```
Jiang extends this dynamic of fanatical focus to modern lobbying, specifically AIPAC and the broader pro-Israel lobby. He argues that they operate on an unbending, single-issue mandate: if any politician stands against them, they will deploy overwhelming financial resources to destroy them politically. He points out that even when Congress is overwhelmingly pro-Israel and a lone dissenter poses no real legislative threat, the lobby will spend tens of millions of dollars—citing the $30 million targeted against Representative Thomas Massie, as well as aggressive spending against primary challengers in Michigan. Even if only a handful of lawmakers oppose their agenda out of several hundred, they refuse to tolerate any margin of dissent, proving that single-minded fanaticism consistently outmaneuvers passive majorities.
- **Political Expenditures**: Jiang cites examples where $30 million to $60 million was mobilized by PACs to unseat individual lawmakers who dissented from the lobby's platform.
- **The Core Paradox of Power**: Governance is not captured by reasonable actors, but by radical minorities willing to endure and inflict total sacrifice to reach their objective.
---
[01:02:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=3742s) Transnational Capital and the Necessity of Creative Destruction
An audience member asks about 9/11 being a sacrifice, which Jiang sets aside momentarily, while another asks why China lacks equivalent secret societies or capitalist networks. Jiang explains that China's internal cohesion relies on deeply rooted family structures rather than transnational secret societies. Because historic China maintained a coherent civilizational sphere within defined geographical boundaries, domestic kinship networks naturally triumphed over independent civic fraternities. In contrast, the Western world—characterized by vast geography, cultural fragmentation, and dispersed populations—required transnational secret societies and capital networks to build coordination across borders.
Jiang then addresses a fundamental question: Why would transnational capital tolerate or partner with religious fanatics who want to destroy the world? He argues that there is a deep, systemic alliance between global capital and messianic secret societies. Capital in itself has no intrinsic value; it functions strictly as an instrument to command human attention, siphon consciousness, and extract labor energy. In advanced Western economies where immense paper wealth has accumulated—such as in New York City—an existential crisis emerges for capital: if a population becomes too affluent, the necessity to submit to wage labor evaporates, and capital yields collapse. To survive, capitalism must continually destroy the very wealth it generates, and its most effective tools of wealth destruction are war and revolution.
```mermaid
flowchart LR
accTitle: The Capitalist Cycle of Wealth Accumulation and Destruction
accDescr: Flowchart illustrating the systemic loop where excess capital leads to stagnation, requiring war and destruction to unlock new reconstruction yields.
subgraph Stagnation ["Domestic Satiation"]
A["Wealth Accumulation & High Debt"] --> B["Declining Returns on Investment<br/>(e.g., Speculative AI Centers)"]
B --> C["Labor Compliance Drops"]
end
subgraph Reset ["Forced Liquidation"]
C --> D["Manufactured Conflict / War<br/>(Middle East Decimation)"]
D --> E["Total Wealth Destruction"]
end
subgraph Rebirth ["New Accumulation Cycle"]
E --> F["Reconstruction Boom<br/>('Pax Judaica' Capital Injection)"]
F --> A
end
```
Looking at contemporary America, Jiang describes a society paralyzed by debt, corruption, severe inequality, and vanishing returns on investment, dismissing hype around massive capital outlays for AI data centers as fundamentally unproductive. Consequently, the devastation of the Middle East—paving the way for an envisioned regional hegemony ("Pax Judaica")—presents transnational capital with an unparalleled investment frontier. Drawing an analogy to his commute on the decaying New York subway system, Jiang quips that attempting to renovate obsolete infrastructure within the bounds of peacetime bureaucracy would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and take half a century. From the ruthless, hyper-rational calculation of finance capital, the fastest and most lucrative way to overhaul an old system is simply to burn it all down first and build anew on the ashes.
[01:07:02](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=4022s) Creative Destruction: Why Capital Demands War and Ruin
Professor Jiang outlines the brutal underlying logic governing transnational capital flows: capital inevitably migrates toward regions emerging from war and devastation because ruined landscapes offer the highest possible return on investment. Rather than seeking stability, massive wealth flows into post-conflict zones and untouched frontiers. Capital is shifting into Israel—anchored within what he calls "Pax Judaica"—alongside destinations like Argentina, Australia, Ukraine, and the Mediterranean basin. These areas serve as "virgin territory" where high yields can be unlocked after geopolitical and physical upheaval.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: The Transnational Capital Cycle of Destruction
accDescr: Flowchart showing how capital flight induces collapse and war to create high-yield reconstruction opportunities.
subgraph Collapse ["Stage 1: Extraction & Flight"]
A["Transnational Capital Departs Mature Empire"] --> B["Economic Collapse & Civil Unrest"]
B --> C["Physical Destruction of Infrastructure"]
end
subgraph Frontier ["Stage 2: Frontier Deployment"]
D["Capital Deploys to Virgin Territory<br/>(Pax Judaica, Ukraine, Argentina)"] --> E["War & Mobilization Extract Human Energy"]
end
subgraph Return ["Stage 3: Reconstruction"]
E --> F["Return of Capital for Post-War Rebuilding"]
F --> A
end
C --> D
```
When liquid capital pulls out of a mature domestic economy like the United States, the consequence is structural collapse, inevitably breeding internal conflict and civil war. Jiang offers a stark illustration: if New York City and its subway system burn to the ground, that devastation creates the very condition global investors require—a clean slate where capital can return ten or twenty years later to finance entirely new transit systems at massive profit. "The only way for capitalism to work is a constant cycle of destruction, revolution, and war," Jiang argues, noting that without catastrophic resets to clear out stagnant assets, capital cannot sustain its required expansion. While people often dismiss cabalists as irrational, Jiang remarks that the rational economic actors directing global capital operate under an equally unsettling logic.
- Global capital seeks the highest yields in post-destruction environments, shifting out of the United States toward frontier assets anchored by Pax Judaica, including Ukraine, Argentina, Australia, and the Mediterranean.
- Domestic capital flight triggers economic ruin, civil unrest, and physical devastation, creating the necessary conditions for a future 10-to-20-year reinvestment and rebuilding cycle.
- Constant turnover through war, revolution, and destruction is framed as a mandatory structural requirement for transnational capitalism rather than an accidental byproduct.
---
[01:08:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=4104s) Fireside Chat: Chinese Secret Societies and the Hollowing Out of China
Transitioning into the fireside chat portion of the session, the host opens with curated audience questions, beginning with whether China possesses secret societies analogous to Western networks. Jiang explains that while China has historically had powerful clandestine organizations—typically rooted in criminal syndicates like the triads and structured around family lineages—their institutional trajectory remains distinctly different. Although these groups frequently achieved political influence and eventually transitioned into legitimate power brokers, they remain bound by ethnic and familial networks. Consequently, Chinese secret societies are not transnational in scale, and more importantly, they lack an eschatological grand vision; their motivations remain purely political and pragmatic.
An audience member asks a follow-up regarding rumors of Freemason infiltration into the upper ranks of the Chinese Communist Party dating back to the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, questioning whether Western fraternities still aim to dismantle Chinese sovereignty as they did during the Cold War. Jiang responds that China has already been effectively penetrated and colonized by transnational capital. Transnational capital entered China in the 1980s and 1990s to build factories and extract the vital productive energy of its massive labor demographic. Crucially, China's subsequent multi-trillion-dollar infrastructure boom was only made possible through global financial integration: an agreement around 2008 involving the Bank for International Settlements allowed the Chinese yuan to appreciate, giving Beijing the purchasing power to buy up raw materials, iron ore, and concrete from Australia and South America.
Instead of generating perpetual strength, this debt-fueled infrastructure push ended up "hollowing out" China's real economy, leaving behind catastrophic levels of debt, extreme inequality, and pervasive systemic corruption. Jiang concludes that China, like the United States, has hit a wall: both are declining empires offering dwindling returns for global elites. As a result, transnational trillions are already abandoning both superpowers to position themselves in the Middle East. When asked if China faces another 1950s-style economic containment, Jiang predicts that surrounding neighbors will enforce an embargo, prompting Beijing to "turtle up" and isolate itself from global trade networks. However, withdrawing inward will trigger severe domestic contradictions: urban elites in Beijing and Shanghai will fight to maintain their Westernized consumer standards at all costs, resulting in food shortages and famine being pushed onto the rural countryside, echoing the catastrophic dynamics of the Great Leap Forward.
- Chinese secret societies are traditionally family-centric triad organizations that evolved into political legitimacy, but they lack the transnational breadth and eschatological philosophy of Western esoteric networks.
- China's post-2008 infrastructure expansion was enabled by global capital and a currency valuation agreement tied to the Bank for International Settlements, enabling massive resource imports from South America and Australia.
- Massive infrastructure overbuilding saddled China with unserviceable debt, inequality, and systemic corruption, causing global capital to exit toward Middle Eastern opportunities.
- Future economic encirclement is expected to push China into self-isolation, generating deep domestic crises where privileged urban centers preserve their lifestyles while rural regions face severe deprivations reminiscent of the Great Leap Forward.
---
[01:13:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=4402s) Artificial Intelligence as Spiritual Alchemy and the Fulfillment of Capital
The host moves to the next question, asking about historical parallels to the current wave of technological disruption and the rapid consolidation of global power. Jiang frames artificial intelligence not as a sudden or isolated technological revolution, but as the inevitable "fulfillment of capital" and the logical extension of the Enlightenment's "holy empire of reason." The foundational imperative of modern capital has always been the seamless, rapid, and frictionless circulation of commodities, finance, personnel, and ideas across the globe.
According to Jiang, the central obstacle to this frictionless flow has always been humanity itself. Human beings possess irrational emotions, ingrained cultural prejudices, and local attachments that act as friction against pure economic efficiency. To eliminate this resistance, human nature must undergo what occult traditions term "spiritual alchemy"—the systematic psychological transformation and homogenization of the human subject. Artificial intelligence serves as the ultimate instrument to realize this project:
> "AI is not just a surveillance tool. What AI is, I mean AI will help us as humans achieve full enlightenment, right? So imagine a microchip implanted in your head, Neuralink, right? That's always telling you the right thing to believe. And if we're able to synchronize all of human consciousness, then that would lead to paradise, right? Because all biases, all prejudices, all negative emotions will be wiped out from the world."
Rather than functioning merely as an instrument for digital tracking and state security, AI represents the complete standardization of human thought. By synchronizing global consciousness and stripping away organic human friction, technology accomplishes the final demands of the capitalist world system.
- AI represents the modern zenith of the Masonic "empire of reason," designed to eliminate all human friction impeding the total circulation of capital, goods, and labor.
- Human emotional biases, organic attachments, and cultural identities are treated by the capitalist apparatus as structural inefficiencies requiring correction through "spiritual alchemy."
- Interfaces like Neuralink and algorithmic oversight serve to homogenize and synchronize human consciousness, framing ideological standardization as the attainment of enlightened global harmony.
---
[01:15:24](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=4524s) The Perpetual War in Iran, Duginism, and the Clash of Civilizations
The discussion turns to the geopolitics of the Middle East, with the host asking what regional order will emerge following the war in Iran, and whether existing power structures can realistically be challenged. Jiang immediately rejects the premise of the question, stating bluntly that the confrontation with Iran "will never end." The conflict is not a routine diplomatic or border dispute, but an irreconcilable existential struggle between two fundamentally incompatible worldviews: Israel representing transnational capital, and Iran representing sacred religious tradition.
A ground invasion of Iran by the United States would inevitably result in a quagmire stretching across decades. For the transnational trillionaire class, however, protracted war is not a strategic failure—it is the optimal outcome. Warfare mobilizes populations, extracts maximum human output, generates immense systemic anxiety, and forces societies to work at extreme capacity. Jiang emphasizes that while millionaires might fret over wartime volatility, trillionaires operate on a different plane, viewing the Middle East conflict as the premier long-term investment vehicle for global capital.
```mermaid
flowchart LR
accTitle: The Eschatological Clash of Systems
accDescr: Diagram illustrating the civilizational conflict between Transnational Capital and Religious Nationalism.
subgraph Capital ["Transnational Capital"]
direction TB
A["Pax Judaica & Israel"]
B["Frictionless Markets"]
C["The 'Beast System' / Antichrist"]
A --- B --- C
end
subgraph Resistance ["Religious Nationalism"]
direction TB
D["Iran & Russia"]
E["Traditional Faith & Family"]
F["The Katechon (Restrainer)"]
D --- E --- F
end
Capital <-->|"Perpetual Conflict / Gog & Magog"| Resistance
```
Jiang points out that the only genuine ideological opposition to this dynamic comes from traditional religious nationalism. He highlights the political philosophy of Aleksandr Dugin in Russia, which explicitly identifies global capitalism as an Antichrist or "beast" system that deliberately erodes family, local community, and authentic human emotion such as love. Jiang frames this contest between transnational capital (led by the United States) and civilizational resistance (embodied by Russia and Iran) as the defining struggle of the next fifty years. An audience member chimes in to confirm the theological dimensions of this analysis, asking whether this framework mirrors the doctrine of the *Katechon*—the historical force that withholds the manifestation of the Antichrist—and whether these opposing power blocs map directly onto the biblical eschatology of Gog and Magog waging an apocalyptic final war.
- The conflict in Iran is structural and permanent, rooted in an irreconcilable contradiction between the logic of transnational capital (Israel) and sacred religious traditionalism (Iran).
- Trillionaire elites view persistent regional instability not as a military blunder, but as a premier financial vehicle designed to maximize societal mobilization and extract productive human energy.
- Aleksandr Dugin's philosophy defines modern capitalism as an eschatological "beast system" dedicated to eradicating the organic foundations of human life, including the family, organic communities, and spiritual love.
- Audience participants link the US-Russia-Iran dynamic to Christian eschatology, questioning whether Russia acts as the restraining *Katechon* opposing the Antichrist within the apocalyptic framework of Gog and Magog.
[01:18:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=4681s) Eschatological Systems and Peter Thiel's Freemasonic Vision of AI
Professor Jiang contrasts divergent apocalyptic worldviews, explaining how different civilizations frame their geopolitical adversaries. In Russian "Third Rome" theology, Russia identifies itself as the *katechon*—the restraining force tasked with holding back the Antichrist, which in this framework is identified with global capitalism. Conversely, Christian Zionist eschatology casts Russia and Persia (Iran) as Gog and Magog, an alignment Jiang notes makes little theological sense on its face, yet drives Western policy narratives.
An audience member asks about Peter Thiel's fixation on the Antichrist and what message Thiel was signaling during his lecture tour and his meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei. Jiang responds that Thiel is carrying forward an esoteric Freemasonic tradition. In Masonic philosophy, the Antichrist is not a horned demon, but whatever force stops human reason from achieving its full potential. The ultimate Masonic ambition is for collective human reason to achieve godhood, a transformation now embodied by the advent of artificial intelligence. Consequently, any friction, regulation, or catastrophe that halts the technological expansion of AI is viewed in that paradigm as an existential enemy of enlightenment—the Antichrist itself.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: Divergent Eschatological Frameworks
accDescr: A comparison between Russian Third Rome theology and Freemasonic AI eschatology.
subgraph Russian["Russian Third Rome Eschatology"]
R1["Russia as Katechon (Restrainer)"] --> R2["Stops Antichrist"]
R2 --> R3["Antichrist = Global Capitalism"]
end
subgraph Freemasonic["Freemasonic / Tech Eschatology"]
F1["Unshackled Human Reason"] --> F2["Attainment of Godhood via AI"]
F2 --> F3["Antichrist = Any Force Halting AI Advance"]
end
```
[01:19:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=4789s) Caspian Sea Escalation and the Mechanics of the Twin Economic Shock
Asked abruptly whether American university branch campuses in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will survive, Jiang issues a deadpan, single-word dismissal: "Nope." He then tackles how the conflicts in Ukraine and Iran are structurally guaranteed to merge. Because Moscow relies on the Caspian Sea corridor to exchange supplies with Tehran, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordered drone strikes against Iranian cargo vessels operating along that maritime route. Jiang observes that Ukraine's strategic goal is to intentionally pull Iran into direct hostilities with Europe, targeting European drone factories and unifying the European and Middle Eastern combat theaters into a single, inescapable conflict.
Turning to economics, Jiang explains how an AI and private credit market collapse can strike simultaneously with hyperinflation. The underlying fiat system is destabilizing as the purchasing power of the US dollar grinds down toward zero. At the same time, the offshore dollar liquidity that historically backstopped Wall Street is drying up; sovereign capital from Japan and the GCC cannot keep subsidizing American asset prices because those nations are consumed by their own acute domestic crises, leaving the private credit and AI tech sectors without incoming capital flows.
[01:21:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=4901s) Engineered Bubbles, Circular Tech Financing, and Data Center Bailouts
Responding to audience concerns about the impending AI bubble burst and who profits from widespread wealth destruction, Jiang argues that market bubbles are deliberately engineered rather than accidental acts of nature. The drumbeat of legacy media warnings is a form of predictive programming, signaling that powerful vested interests—chiefly the AI mega-caps themselves—actually want the crash to occur. If a titan like OpenAI faces insolvency, it threatens systemic ruin for the broader economy, forcing the federal government under Donald Trump to intervene with a massive bailout.
The prize of this orchestrated crisis is the nationalization of AI infrastructure. Data centers are overwhelmingly expensive to construct, power-hungry, and constantly delayed by local zoning disputes and community pushback. If the federal government steps in to rescue the sector, these facilities can be reclassified as critical military installations. Under eminent domain, local resistance is wiped out, effectively socializing the colossal capital expenditures while leaving future profits in private corporate hands:
> "The data centers cost you a lot of money and they're hard to implement because of community reaction. But if Trump and the United States government comes in and nationalizes these data centers, they are now military installations. Now you have eminent domain. Now the communities can't complain, right? And data centers are the main cost of AI companies. So you want the bubble to burst so that the federal government can come in and save your ass."
When an audience member asks what mechanical lever triggers the crash—contrasting it with the 2008 subprime mortgage defaults—Jiang clarifies that today's AI economy is built on closed-loop circular financing. A cartel of roughly seven tech giants is simply funding each other in a financial "circle jerk." Because they sustain each other's balance sheets, the bubble will not burst by internal rot alone; the participants will collude to pull the plug on a manufactured pretext once they have positioned themselves to short the broader market and reap windfalls on the downside.
- **Trigger Difference:** 2008 had an organic systemic trigger (widespread subprime home mortgage defaults), whereas AI relies on circular corporate cross-investments among roughly seven Big Tech players.
- **The Playbook:** Let the mania run as the path of least resistance, coordinate the timing of the collapse, short the market, and demand state nationalization of fixed physical capital.
[01:25:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=5127s) Reclaiming Attention from Capital and the Rise of Post-Exhaustion Nations
When asked how citizens in the West can forge an alternative to capital and modernity, Jiang redefines real wealth away from financial instruments and toward human imagination and attention. Tech platforms offer "free" services precisely because raw human attention is the scarce commodity being monetized and extracted. Breaking free of this system does not merely mean reading literature; it requires rebuilding physical, localized human bonds through generosity and community connection.
Jiang shares a personal anecdote from a visit to Los Angeles to illustrate the hyper-alienation of hyper-capitalist culture:
> "I was at Pacific Palisades in LA. It was the most ridiculous, 'cause they live in like these $20 million to $200 million mansions and they don't even know their neighbors. I was talking to my friend. He's like, 'Oh yeah, Steven Spielberg lives down the street.' Like, 'Well, are you guys friends?' Like, 'No, I never met the guy.' They live like three houses down... And Adam Sandler: 'Yeah, he's my next-door neighbor. Never met the guy. Never seen the guy.' It's so weird."
Regarding which nations will ascend as the American and Chinese empires decline, Jiang points to states operating on the fringes or outside the totalizing reach of globalized capital: Israel, Japan, Poland, North Korea, and Iran. Societies that have not been hollowed out and exhausted by hyper-financialization still retain untapped institutional vitality and potential, whereas over-capitalized superpowers are running on fumes.
[01:27:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=5261s) The Dynamic Between Trump and JD Vance
An audience member asks about the ideological tension within the Republican coalition, highlighting the apparent contradiction between JD Vance's non-interventionist isolationism and Donald Trump's broader imperial ambitions. Jiang rejects the notion of an active civil war between the two figures. Rather than Vance representing an oppositional coup, Trump deliberately elevated him to balance and maneuver between warring Republican factions. Vance is an instrument of Trump's broader strategy, operating under his sanction as Trump actively encourages Vance's media footprint and book tours to manage divergent populist and elite interests.
[01:28:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=5300s) Strategic Politics and Raising a Family Amid Global Chaos
Reflecting on recent political maneuvering, Professor Jiang notes that Donald Trump's political style is fundamentally about keeping as many pathways open as possible. Rather than signifying an ideological rupture, selecting JD Vance allows Trump to "maintain as many options as possible," treating him as an instrument of strategic flexibility.
When an audience member asks for practical guidance on where to build a home and raise a family given late-stage capitalism and escalating conflict in the Middle East, Jiang offers an unexpected, spiritually grounded perspective. He dismisses geopolitical optimization for domestic life, arguing that geographic security is secondary to the act of creation itself:
> "If you have a family, God will protect you anywhere. Rather than focus on like, 'Where should my family be,' focus first of all on having a family... just focus on loving your children, and then God will take care of the rest."
---
[01:29:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=5360s) US–China Relations and the Global Economic Order
Addressing the long-term trajectory of US–China relations over the next decade or two, Jiang rejects the notion that the two superpowers are destined to be natural enemies. Both nations, in his view, share an overriding material interest in preserving the existing globalized framework. China in particular remains heavily export-oriented and actively seeks a détente with Washington. The primary obstacle to stability is not Chinese ambition, but rather the domestic factional chaos within the United States that makes American foreign policy unpredictable and erratic. Jiang points to President Xi Jinping's upcoming visit to the United States on September 24th as a decisive bellwether, expressing confidence that pragmatic compromises will emerge and turn relations around.
---
[01:30:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=5426s) The Material Limits of Artificial Intelligence
When asked how the rise of artificial intelligence will redefine human intellectual purpose and social values, Jiang delivers a blunt, skeptical counter-narrative: "AI is a dead end." Rather than viewing AI as an unbounded cognitive revolution, he grounds it entirely in its vulnerable physical foundation.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: Material Constraints on AI Scaling
accDescr: Diagram illustrating how supply chain fragility caps the development of artificial intelligence.
subgraph TechnologicalCeiling["Technological Ceiling"]
B --> C["AI Infrastructure & Compute"]
D["Geopolitical Disruption"] -.->|"Chokes supply"| A
C --> E["Peak AI / Development Plateau"]
end
```
Jiang argues that the advanced capabilities of AI depend on seamless access to cheap rare earths, lithium, and silver sourced internationally. As global supply chains fracture under geopolitical tension, scaling AI to the next level becomes impossible. In an era marked by disruption, massive capital allocation into AI represents a misdirection, leading Jiang to conclude that humanity has already reached the peak of the technology's viable expansion.
---
[01:31:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=5492s) Reforming High School Education Through the Occult and Great Books
Challenged to name three structural changes he would implement if redesigning secondary education from scratch, Jiang targets the materialist indoctrination built into modern curricula. Conventional schooling suppresses intellectual vitality by imposing a sterile, mechanical view of the world.
To genuinely engage students and train them to ask transformative questions, Jiang proposes radically shifting the curriculum toward esoteric wisdom and foundational literature:
- **The Occult and Kabbalah:** Introducing metaphysical frameworks to help students comprehend spiritual reality rather than purely materialist dogma.
- **The Great Books Tradition:** Immersing students in masterworks such as Homer and Dante.
- **Real-World Integration:** Breaking down the barrier between institutional schooling and lived experience, transforming schools into environments that directly engage the world as it exists.
---
[01:32:22](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=5542s) The Monad, Creative Imagination, and the Artist as Prophet
The conversation turns to the nature of reality and whether human imagination can be corrupted by demonic influence. Jiang firmly rejects the idea that genuine imagination can serve evil, grounding his ontology in the divine "Monad." Drawing on Percy Bysshe Shelley's defense of poetry, he asserts that authentic artistic creation is not personal fabrication but divine inspiration:
> "Poetry—if you're a poet, you're not being imaginative; you're being divinely inspired. If it's a great piece of literature, if it's really beautiful, it comes from the Monad... Real imagination comes from a place of love. So it's almost impossible to be imaginative for evil purposes."
In Jiang's cosmological framework, Satan possesses no independent ontological reality; evil is merely an explanatory concept humans invent to make sense of the world, whereas the fundamental organizing law of the universe—as Dante grasped—is free will. The true role of the artist during times of civilizational collapse is therefore inherently prophetic: to unveil cosmic truth, offer genuine hope, and articulate new possibilities. The moderator jokes that modern artists have largely abandoned this prophetic calling to hang out in Brooklyn sipping "$10 matchas."
---
[01:34:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=5674s) Spiritual Awakening in an Age of Disruption
Closing out the pre-submitted inquiries, Jiang is asked to identify what is genuinely positive about the present era. He contends that contemporary crises are beneficial because comfortable illusions have finally collapsed, forcing individuals to confront existential questions about human purpose:
- **Collapse of Complacency:** A decade earlier, audiences routinely dismissed Jiang’s lectures as alarmist and insane because material comfort insulated them from harsh truths.
- **Activation of the Soul:** Widespread disruption has now ignited a dormant internal spark, compelling people to actively search for spiritual answers.
- **Collective Evolution:** This shared desperation creates the conditions for a genuine spiritual awakening and the collective evolution of humanity.
---
[01:36:08](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=5768s) Modern Literary Anchors: From Tolstoy to Raymond Carver
Moving to floor questions with a roving microphone, an attendee asks Jiang to name post-modernity or modern literary works that—like Dante's *Divine Comedy*—serve as practical manuals for navigating contemporary life.
Jiang points immediately to 19th-century Russian literature, declaring Leo Tolstoy's *Anna Karenina* to be the greatest novel ever written, alongside Fyodor Dostoevsky's masterpieces *Crime and Punishment* and *The Brothers Karamazov*. When searching for modern American literature that captures profound emotional depth, Jiang highlights the short stories of Raymond Carver, pointing specifically to "Cathedral" as a work that strips away superficiality and forces readers into deep, emotional reflection.
---
[01:37:37](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=5857s) Demographic Shifts, Chabad-Lubavitch, and the Reality of Pax Judaica
An audience member challenges Jiang's broader thesis regarding "Pax Judaica" and Israel's emergence as an imperial center, noting Israel's shifting domestic demographics: while the birth rate is high at roughly three children per woman, demographic growth is concentrated among Haredi/Hasidic Jews and Arab-Israeli citizens. The questioner asks whether this shift undermines the Pax Judaica thesis over the next 30 to 50 years.
Jiang clarifies that everyday Israelis have no desire for an imperial Pax Judaica and are perfectly content with standard civic stability. The geopolitical push instead originates from aggressive, radical messianic elements—identifying Chabad-Lubavitch as a prime driver—who actively seek to trigger end-times prophecy:
> "Israelis do not want Pax Judaica... Israelis are fairly happy with the way things are as they are. And unfortunately, there are some messianic Jews—mainly Chabad-Lubavitch... they're trying to usher in the end times and they're out of control."
Rather than confronting this faction directly and risking an outright domestic civil war, secular and moderate Israelis—particularly from Tel Aviv—are quietly opting out and leaving the country:
- Wealthy and secular citizens are buying property throughout the Mediterranean, notably across Greece and Cyprus.
- Substantial numbers are emigrating to Argentina and Australia.
- This accelerating brain drain creates a vicious cycle: as secular populations exit, the remaining Israeli state becomes even more demographically and politically dominated by messianic religious factions.
[01:39:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=5970s) Pax Judea, Theocracy, and the Indian Labor Pipeline
Professor Jiang argues that Israel's domestic political structure is undergoing an irreversible mutation. As the settler movement amasses unprecedented political leverage, the state is shifting away from its traditional democratic framework toward an overt theocracy over the next few years. Pointing to an upcoming October election as a decisive bellwether, Jiang asserts that the concept of Israel remaining a Western-style democracy simply cannot endure. In his analysis, the consolidation of what he terms "Pax Judea" requires a rigid social hierarchy: a governing theocratic priest class presiding over a disenfranchised imported underclass. Specifically, he outlines a design to bring in millions of Indian migrant laborers to serve as a modern slave or peasant caste.
When an audience member asks whether transnational capital actively desires an Israel stratified into a police/priest caste and a peasant class, Jiang answers emphatically in the affirmative, framing it purely through the cold arithmetic of profit maximization. Having witnessed the destruction of Libya, Syria, and Iraq—with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) monarchies slated for swift destabilization next—transnational capital seeks to repopulate the region with labor drawn from India's booming youth demographic. Exporting these young men serves dual interests: it relieves domestic pressure within India, where an underemployed youth bulge risks violent revolt if left unmanaged, and it aligns ideologically with the rise of Hindutva. Jiang characterizes Hindutva as a form of "Indian Zionism," pointing out the deep geopolitical affinity between the two projects. He notes that global public opinion has soured so dramatically that Israel now maintains a net positive favorability rating in only four countries on earth, with India prominently among them alongside African nations like Ghana and Nigeria.
- **Structural Vision of Pax Judea:** A ruling theocratic priest class managing millions of disenfranchised migrant laborers imported from the Global South.
- **Transnational Capital Motive:** Profit extraction through the demographic reconfiguration of the post-conflict Middle East following the destruction of states like Libya, Syria, and Iraq.
- **Ideological Alignment:** The convergence of Zionism and Hindutva, providing ideological justification for labor pipelines and strategic alliances.
- **Global Favorability:** India remains one of only four countries worldwide where Israel still holds a net positive public approval rating, alongside nations such as Ghana and Nigeria.
---
[01:41:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=6107s) Kabbalah, Numerology, and the Messianic Rise of Chabad-Lubavitch
A participant asks how Kabbalah transitioned from its medieval development in Andalusi Islamic Spain into Christian Europe, the Western occult tradition, and Christian Zionism, inquiring which esoteric currents should be studied today to comprehend world events. Jiang explains that Kabbalah fundamentally took the core tenets of Egyptian Hermeticism and Gnosticism and mapped them onto the Hebrew scriptures. Whereas Neoplatonism and Gnosticism maintain that the divine mind is fundamentally unknowable and unsearchable, Kabbalists operate under a distinct premise: if the Bible is the literal word of God written in the Hebrew alphabet, then the Hebrew letters and their corresponding numerology (gematria) represent the foundational code and instruments God utilized to forge reality. Deciphering these linguistic and mathematical permutations, therefore, grants practitioners the power to decode the fabric of the universe and actively predict or manipulate future outcomes.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: Esoteric Epistemology Comparison
accDescr: Contrasting Gnosticism and Neoplatonism with Kabbalistic cosmology and its practical application.
subgraph ClassicalEsotericism["Classical Esotericism"]
A["Gnosticism & Neoplatonism"] -->|"Divine Reality"| B["Mind of God is Inscrutable"]
end
subgraph KabbalisticTradition["Kabbalistic Tradition"]
C["Hebrew Scriptures"] -->|"Linguistic Matrix"| D["Alphabet & Gematria"]
D -->|"Cosmic Blueprint"| E["Predicting the Future & Shaping Reality"]
end
```
This perceived predictive potency explains why Kabbalah has exerted such an enduring grip on power elites. As a primary modern example, Jiang highlights the Hasidic movement Chabad-Lubavitch. Originating in Tsarist Russia, the movement suffered sustained persecution under the Tsars and was later systematically targeted by Soviet authorities. By ordinary historical metrics, Chabad should have been completely eradicated decades ago. Instead, it experienced an astonishing resurgence, expanding into an influential global network with intimate access to world leaders, including Vladimir Putin in Russia, Donald Trump in the United States, and President Javier Milei in Argentina. From the movement's own perspective, their survival and political ascent is nothing short of miraculous divine intervention, fueled by their Kabbalistic and deeply messianic end-times theology.
---
[01:44:46](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=6286s) Harvard Chabad, Mark Zuckerberg, and the Cambridge Analytica Nexus
Jiang illustrates the real-world influence of these networks through an anecdote tracing the origins of Facebook. He challenges the audience to question how Mark Zuckerberg managed to dominate social media with an idea that was far from unique, while blatantly violating Harvard's internal privacy rules and commercializing university intellectual property without repercussions. Jiang traces this immunity back to Zuckerberg's freshman year at Harvard, when he joined Harvard Chabad. The ecosystem surrounding that specific student chapter at the time included prominent figures who would go on to shape national politics and culture:
```mermaid
flowchart LR
accTitle: Harvard Chabad Network of the Early 2000s
accDescr: Key figures surrounding Harvard Chabad and their connections to Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.
subgraph Leadership["Leadership & Patrons"]
LS["Larry Summers<br/>(Harvard Patron)"]
AD["Alan Dershowitz<br/>(Faculty Advisor)"]
end
Leadership --> StudentBody
MZ -.->|"Facebook Data Pipeline"| JK
```
Jiang connects Zuckerberg's background to a publicly available story regarding his birth: after having three daughters, Zuckerberg's parents reportedly visited the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, to request a blessing for a male heir. To the untrained eye, Jiang observes, this sounds like a quaint family tradition; however, when read through biblical typology, it mirrors messianic birth narratives like Abraham and Sarah conceiving Isaac, or Hannah consecrating the prophet Samuel to God's service before Samuel went on to anoint King David. In biblical terminology, describing a child born of such a blessing represents coded language signifying a dedicated "servant of God." Jiang argues this esoteric backing helps explain otherwise inexplicable realities in Silicon Valley venture capital, such as investors granting a nineteen-year-old founder permanent super-voting control over Meta despite him lacking an absolute equity majority. This closed loop resurfaced dramatically during the 2016 presidential election: Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal data of over 50 million Facebook users for hyper-targeted political propaganda, an operation coordinated between Zuckerberg's platform and Donald Trump's digital campaign director, Jared Kushner—reuniting the two former Harvard Chabad peers at a pivotal geopolitical turning point.
- **Harvard Chabad Roster (circa 2002–2004):** Included freshman Mark Zuckerberg alongside seniors Jared Kushner and Natalie Portman.
- **Institutional Protection:** Harvard Chabad's institutional faculty advisor was law professor Alan Dershowitz, with Harvard University President Larry Summers acting as patron.
- **Corporate Anomalies:** Venture capitalists granted Zuckerberg unconditional voting control of Facebook at age nineteen, an arrangement virtually unprecedented in major tech financing.
- **The 2016 Campaign Nexus:** The weaponization of 50 million users' private profile data via Cambridge Analytica bridged Facebook (run by Zuckerberg) directly to the Trump campaign's digital operation (run by Kushner).
---
[01:49:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=6572s) The Closed Elite Circle and Reclaiming Occult Knowledge
An audience member interjects to reinforce Jiang's point about elite consolidation, mentioning a news report from the previous day revealing that the wife of Dario Amodei (the CEO of AI firm Anthropic) had previously sought investment funding from Jeffrey Epstein for a women's venture and had dated a prominent Wall Street figure. Jiang agrees, remarking that the global ruling class forms an astonishingly insular circle where nearly every major actor is separated by only one or two degrees. He adds that Epstein himself was deeply entangled in these exact networks, noting his well-documented ties to Chabad-Lubavitch circles.
The discussion then pivots as another attendee follows up on Jiang's broader philosophical teachings. Noting that Jiang frequently encourages young people to read the Great Books, study occult traditions, and treat artists as prophetic figures, the listener asks how emerging thinkers, entrepreneurs, and artists can use these esoteric tools constructively—for the common good and the creation of entirely new cultural paradigms, rather than predatory elite control. As the segment concludes, Jiang begins addressing the question, acknowledging that while audiences constantly seek direct instruction from him, genuine cultural renewal operates through an entirely different mechanism.
[01:50:36](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=6636s) Connecting to the Monad, Discovering Purpose, and Trusting the Universe
Professor Jiang emphasizes that once an individual connects back to the Monad—the universal consciousness—it naturally reveals the path forward. He explains that each person is incarnated for their own individual experience and purpose, making it essential to discover one's *telos* and constantly seek guidance from this universal source rather than looking to outside figures. "Looking to me won't solve anything," he tells the audience, advising them instead to open up directly to the Monad.
When an audience member asks him directly what his own path looks like when he connects to the Monad, Jiang responds that his calling is to be a teacher. He gauges whether he is aligned with this path by examining the friction in his daily life: when things flow smoothly, he takes it as a sign that he is walking the path the Monad desires; when things hit constant resistance, he knows it is probably the wrong direction. To illustrate this surrender and trust in the universe, Jiang shares an anecdote about his recent journey to New York City. He was traveling with his son and had not realized that a specific travel authorization letter was required by the United States. Facing the immediate prospect of missing his flight, he noted that five years ago he would have been consumed by intense anxiety. Instead, he simply accepted that if he made it into the country, it was because the Monad wanted him there, and if not, it was because he was not meant to be there.
[01:52:40](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=6760s) The Crisis of Materialism in China and the Power of Spirituality
An audience member asks about the situation inside China, referencing Jiang's past remarks about sharing more once he moved away. Jiang offers a stark assessment, describing the current state of China as "hopeless." He characterizes the leadership as exceedingly arrogant, indifferent, and stubborn, while describing the broader populace as overwhelmingly materialistic.
Jiang argues that surviving the coming historical upheavals will fundamentally require spirituality, because those anchored in the spiritual realm will possess the resilience needed to endure catastrophic crises. Because the Chinese people have largely become divorced from spiritual life—contrasting them with the Japanese, whom he views as retaining spiritual sensibilities—they cannot reconnect with the Monad since they do not believe in it, leaving them profoundly vulnerable to future calamities.
[01:53:45](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=6825s) Reading Recommendations and the Longevity of Modern Authoritarians
A participant asks for reading guidance, mentioning their struggle with Thucydides' *History of the Peloponnesian War* and requesting a broader book list. Jiang acknowledges having taught Great Books curricula, but advises that the habit of reading for an hour every day matters far more than forcing oneself through difficult canonical works. He urges readers to begin with whatever they genuinely enjoy, while giving a personal shout-out to classic 19th-century Russian literature, particularly Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The discussion pivots back to Chinese politics when an attendee asks what will become of China once Xi Jinping—who is around 74 years old—passes away, pointing out how drastically China shifted following Mao Zedong's death. Jiang challenges the assumption that aging autocrats will exit the stage anytime soon:
- **Relentless Will to Power:** Figures like Donald Trump (now 80), Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin possess an iron determination and an insatiable appetite for power that sustains their physical longevity far longer than ordinary people expect.
- **The Example of Joe Biden:** Jiang recalls bets made around 2020 that Biden would never complete his term due to cognitive decline and medical issues, with observers predicting Kamala Harris would take over; yet despite apparent senility, Biden served out his entire presidency.
- **Modern Life-Extension Technologies:** Jiang dismisses the common conviction that leaders will inevitably die on an ordinary biological timeline, arguing that advances in organ transplants, blood transfusions, and elite access to cutting-edge medical technologies mean these leaders "will live a lot longer than you assume they will live."
[01:57:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=7061s) Defining the Monad Versus Scientific Materialism
An audience member asks why Jiang uses terms like "God" and "Monad" interchangeably and presses him on what actually created his conviction. Jiang explains that the Monad provides answers where conventional scientific materialism consistently falls short. Despite having researched neuroscience, synaptic transmissions, and memory formation, he found purely physical explanations of human consciousness intellectually unfulfilling.
By contrast, the metaphysical concept of the Monad—positing that consciousness spans multiple dimensions and that ideas and intuition flow into human awareness from a higher metaphysical source—aligns with his internal experience. For Jiang, ultimate conviction must rest in the heart rather than blind external authority. He humorously quips that anyone telling people not to trust themselves and instead to simply "trust the science" is "probably Tony Fauci," someone he insists one should never trust.
[01:59:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=7165s) The Mechanism of a Modern Bronze Age Collapse
A member of the audience asks why Jiang repeatedly predicts a systemic "Bronze Age Collapse" over the next 50 years rather than conventional cyclical shocks like the Great Depression or the aftermath of World War II, questioning the actual probability and structural drivers behind a collapse that could trigger a multi-century dark age.
Jiang breaks down the systemic vulnerability of the modern world into basic energetic and ecological dependencies:
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: Systemic Collapse Flowchart
accDescr: Flowchart illustrating how energy loss in the Middle East impacts global population survival through fertilizer and food shortages.
subgraph Energy["Energy Foundation"]
GCC["GCC & Middle East Energy"]
end
subgraph Agriculture["Agricultural Support"]
Fertilizer["Synthetic Fertilizer Production"]
CheapEnergy["Low-Cost Global Energy"]
end
subgraph Outcomes["Systemic Shocks"]
Africa["Mass Famine in Africa"]
Europe["Social Revolutions in Europe"]
Population["Inability to Sustain 8 Billion People"]
end
GCC --> Fertilizer
GCC --> CheapEnergy
Fertilizer --> Africa
CheapEnergy --> Europe
Africa --> Population
Europe --> Population
```
- **Population Scale vs. Energy Footprint:** The planet currently sustains 8 billion human beings who all require food, warmth, and basic supplies to survive.
- **The Fragile GCC Pillar:** That population level is made possible almost entirely by cheap hydrocarbons originating in the Middle East, specifically the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations.
- **Cascading Vulnerabilities:** If the GCC were taken out of the global equation, the immediate loss of cheap energy and petrochemical feedstocks for synthetic fertilizer would swiftly trigger catastrophic famine across Africa and erupt into widespread social revolutions across Europe.
[02:01:14](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=7274s) The Bronze Age Collapse, Interconnection, and Looming Famine
Professor Jiang begins by examining the profound lesson of the late Bronze Age collapse: people mistakenly believe that extreme global interconnection creates resilience and dexterity, when in reality it produces fragility. During the Bronze Age, ordinary citizens thought they lived in an orderly, almost perfect world because trade networks spanned across known civilizations. Yet, precisely because everything was tightly coupled, a single crisis cascaded across the entire system until "things were perfectly normal until they weren't."
Jiang applies this historical lens directly to modern planetary constraints. With a current global population around 8 billion, but base ecological resources such as freshwater and arable soil capable of sustainably supporting perhaps only 2 billion, violent adjustments are inevitable. When parents in regions like Africa find themselves unable to provide basic food and water for their children, migration becomes the only viable biological imperative. Migrants coalesce into bands of bandits and pirates merely to survive, eventually forming massive movements that function like desperate invading armies crashing against the defensive perimeter of Europe. Jiang stresses that the next decade will witness famine-driven mass migrations and localized resource wars that represent not an organized conflict like World War II, but a systemic civilizational breakdown where basic human decency vanishes in a desperate "dog-eat-dog" struggle over survival essentials.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: Cascading Civilizational Breakdown
accDescr: Flowchart illustrating how overpopulation and resource depletion cascade through migration into civilizational breakdown.
subgraph Resource_Mismatch ["Resource Strain"]
A["8 Billion Population"] --> B["Resources for ~2 Billion"]
B --> C["Severe Food & Water Deficits"]
end
subgraph Societal_Collapse ["Cascading Breakdown"]
C --> D["Mass Desperation & Famine"]
D --> E["Piracy, Banditry & Migration"]
E --> F["Breakdown of Civil Decency & War"]
end
Resource_Mismatch --> Societal_Collapse
```
[02:02:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=7376s) Elite Fortresses, AI Religion, and Spiritual Connection to the Monad
An audience member asks whether this catastrophic civilizational unraveling is intentionally engineered by elites. Jiang clarifies that rather than executing a master conspiratorial blueprint, the ruling class simply follows the "path of least resistance." The billionaires in charge may not be cartoonishly evil; rather, their immense privilege insulates them. If a global catastrophe erupts, they already possess underground bunkers in New Zealand, helicopters ready on helipads, and fortified estates in the Pacific Palisades. They can shield themselves while the exterior system falls apart.
Another attendee recalls a podcast where Jiang hypothesized that humanity over the next fifty years might fracture into two rival camps—those who worship AI as a god versus those who reject technological deification—and asks how one can mentally map and survive such a future. Jiang responds that the pace of transformation is accelerating so wildly that making static five-decade roadmaps is impossible, noting how drastically the world shifted in just the preceding six months alone. Instead, survival will belong to the deeply spiritual:
> "I think that those who will thrive or those who survive are those who are deeply spiritual. Those who believe that they're connected to the Monad and that they're here for a purpose and their purpose is often to help others..."
Those who recognize their origins in the Monad will act as anchors and natural leaders for bewildered communities, guided by spiritual intuition rather than rigid secular models.
[02:05:17](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=7517s) Economic Collapse and the Mechanism of the "National Draft"
A 22-year-old audience member steps forward to express deep skepticism about Jiang's frequent warnings regarding an impending national draft. The young man explains that he had previously enlisted in the Marine Corps before tearing his rotator cuff and has friends on active duty where morale is so low that sailors are reportedly jumping off ships. Given that Generation Z has been largely propagandized to distrust the government and oppose foreign wars, he questions how the state could possibly compel millions of young people to fight as "drone bait" rather than choosing prison.
Jiang explains that a draft will not necessarily manifest as immediate forced infantry enlistment during peacetime. Instead, it will be driven by economic devastation:
- A dual collapse of the artificial intelligence bubble and the private credit market will evaporate trillions in paper wealth.
- Young adults currently rely on an illusion of safety, assuming their parents' millions in suburban real estate and equity portfolios will permanently backstop them.
- Once those asset bubbles burst, the United States will plunge into Great Depression-level destitution.
- Under conditions of extreme poverty and impending homelessness, the state will step in with a modern equivalent of the New Deal public works programs or mandatory infrastructure mobilization—a civil "national works program" that seamlessly conditions the population for broader military regimentation, mirroring how ten years of depression primed 1930s populations to willingly march into World War II.
[02:07:43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=7663s) Starting a Family as an Act of Faith and the Reality of Secret Societies
The same 22-year-old asks a personal follow-up question: he feels that starting a family is life's greatest source of purpose, but he fears bringing children into an unstable world where he might be drafted or torn away. Jiang responds with deep personal empathy, urging him not to treat family planning as an analytical spreadsheet:
> "It's an act of faith. Having a family is an act of faith. And so, like if you just say, 'Well, if I do a cost-benefit analysis, I shouldn't have a family,' you get nowhere."
Jiang shares his own past as proof: a decade earlier, he found himself unemployed with no income or clear prospects. Yet, out of love, he and his wife chose to have children. That immense existential responsibility forced him to produce: he wrote a book, which secured him an academic position, which in turn gave him the platform to create YouTube lectures. Each child deepened his alignment with reality, as if the universe cleared a path solely because he committed to the responsibility.
Checking the time and realizing the session must conclude soon, Jiang takes one more question regarding esoteric history. An attendee asks about Jiang's premise that secret societies evolve nonlinearly with broken chains of custody. The questioner wonders whether the persistent continuity of ritual and occult doctrine—from the ancient Eleusinian Mysteries to modern clandestine organizations—is driven by Jung's collective unconscious acting through human avatars, and how negative occult forces fit alongside an all-good Monad. Jiang begins his answer by noting an esoteric theory: through rigorous spiritual discipline, certain ancient individuals achieved a level of transcendence that allowed them to imprint their consciousness into the universal fabric. From that disembodied realm, these entities communicate across centuries, occasionally reincarnating or manipulating worldly politics under names historical traditions have termed Satan or other demonic archetypes.
[02:10:48](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=7848s) The Monad, Free Will, and the Power of Imagination
Addressing the idea of malevolent forces—whether framed as devils, Nephilim, or hidden cabals—manipulating human affairs, Professor Jiang acknowledges that there is significant validity to theories identifying dark forces behind the scenes. However, reconciling that reality with the concept of a loving Monad requires understanding the supreme gift granted to humanity: absolute free will. In the framework Jiang outlines (referencing Dante), if the divine source truly loves humanity, it must endow individuals with total liberty. That liberty permits human beings to construct the world they inhabit today—one characterized by extraordinary technological capability and materialism, yet fraught with immense suffering.
Because imagination demands total freedom to function, evil cannot simply be viewed as an external imposition that strips away human agency. If corrupt actors possess the freedom to manipulate events toward destructive ends, everyday individuals possess the exact same power to imagine and forge a radically different reality. While ruling factions appear to hold all tangible worldly authority, genuine power resides entirely within human imagination. Jiang stresses that having steadfast faith in one’s own imagination serves as the ultimate inner guiding light.
[02:12:23](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=7943s) Idealism vs. Materialism: Consciousness Preceding Matter
An audience member asks a follow-up regarding the metaphysical foundations of reality, contrasting emergent materialism with the philosophical idealism championed by Neoplatonists like Plotinus and idealists like George Berkeley—where consciousness serves as the primary source from which the physical universe projects. Jiang agrees wholeheartedly with the idealist framework, arguing that consciousness giving rise to matter makes vastly more sense than the inverse.
In Jiang's view, the universe is fundamentally consciousness itself, while the physical, material realm operates as an elaborate simulation or a shared delusion constructed by its participants. He argues that modern materialistic science hits a dead end when trying to address the "hard problem" of consciousness; an emergent materialistic model completely fails to explain how non-conscious matter could generate awareness, which is why conventional materialist frameworks simply evade answering the origins of consciousness altogether.
[02:13:19](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=7999s) Teaching with Humility: The Power of "I Am Wrong"
A fellow educator who teaches middle school asks Jiang for pedagogical guidance. The teacher explains that working with younger students who have limited vocabularies and language barriers makes relying purely on storytelling and narration difficult, and asks what practical techniques can overcome these obstacles. Rather than offering complicated pedagogical theory, Jiang immediately presents what he considers the single most transformative practice in education: learning to utter the words, "I am wrong."
Jiang advises the teacher to make a deliberate, daily habit of openly admitting fault in front of the class. Regardless of the grade level or linguistic hurdles, this practice fundamentally reshapes the classroom dynamic by actively modeling self-reflection, humility, and self-forgiveness. When an instructor openly acknowledges error, it disarms the students' fear of failure, granting them implicit permission to accept their own fallibility, embrace their mistakes, and focus on genuine self-improvement. Jiang calls this demonstration of vulnerability the greatest gift a teacher can offer.
[02:15:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=8101s) The Collapse of the US Dollar and the Absurdity of the Iran War
The discussion turns to geopolitics and macroeconomics when a listener asks about the fate of the US dollar, inquiring what consequential milestones will signal its decline and what might replace it. Jiang highlights public remarks by political figures such as JD Vance, who have openly questioned whether maintaining the US dollar as the world's reserve currency is actually advantageous for the country. Jiang reiterates that holding the global reserve currency is inherently destructive to the issuing nation: it strips domestic control over monetary policy, fuels reckless financialization and market speculation, and forces the host nation to maintain an unsustainable, bloated global military apparatus to enforce the system.
Because no sovereign state actually wants to shoulder these domestic burdens, Jiang anticipates that no single fiat currency will rise to take the dollar's place. While institutions like European banks are increasing their adoption of alternatives such as the Chinese RMB, the US dollar will linger primarily because there is no viable alternative ready to absorb global liquidity. The endgame will not be an orderly replacement of the dollar, but a catastrophic systemic breakdown where international trade infrastructure disintegrates entirely, rendering reserve currencies irrelevant. He points to the recent outbreak of the war with Iran as proof of systemic collapse, marveling at how within six months the United States stumbled into a conflict with zero strategic rationale, no plan for victory, and a stubborn refusal to withdraw—a trajectory driven purely by the unprecedented arrogance and stupidity of modern leadership.
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: The Trap of Global Reserve Currency and Systemic Collapse
accDescr: Flowchart illustrating how holding the global reserve currency leads to domestic burdens and eventual systemic breakdown rather than orderly currency replacement.
subgraph ReserveBurden ["The Reserve Currency Trap"]
A["US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency"] --> B["Loss of Monetary Control"]
A --> C["Hyper-Financial Speculation"]
A --> D["Requirement for Massive Military Overextension"]
end
subgraph NoSuccessor ["Absence of a Successor"]
E["No Single Nation Desires Reserve Status"]
F["Ad-hoc Basket & Rise of Alternatives (e.g., RMB)"]
G["Dollar Persists Solely by Default"]
end
subgraph TheEndgame ["Systemic Calamity"]
H["Breakdown of Global Financial Plumbing"]
I["Collapse of International Trade Networks"]
J["Currencies Become Irrelevant"]
end
- **The Reserve Currency Dilemma:** Holding reserve status hollows out domestic manufacturing, inflates speculative assets, and forces perpetual geopolitical intervention.
- **The Lack of an Alternative:** Neither the Euro, the RMB, nor any single sovereign unit wants the severe structural costs of running persistent global current-account deficits.
- **The Geopolitical Crisis:** The unprovoked, aimless war between the US and Iran demonstrates an institutional policy apparatus acting without strategic vision or realistic exit plans.
[02:17:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=8261s) AI Data Centers, Agriculture, and Psychological Collapse
Connecting earlier discussions of systemic collapse to historic precedents like the Late Bronze Age collapse, an audience member raises concerns about artificial intelligence infrastructure. They note the staggering amounts of freshwater consumed by AI data centers and wonder whether resources are being deliberately captured to strip everyday citizens of agricultural independence. The listener asks whether personal gardening and home cultivation are vital survival strategies.
Jiang responds by re-framing how civilizational die-offs actually unfold. In his view, mass casualties during systemic collapses do not stem primarily from an absolute absence of food or water, but rather from catastrophic psychological failure. Everyday populations, particularly middle-class Americans, remain so desperately invested in the illusion of stability that they bury their heads in the sand, sincerely telling themselves that once Donald Trump is gone or an election passes, "things will go back to normal." When the institutional fabric snaps, their rigid worldview shatters, leaving them incapable of processing reality. Because so many people would literally "rather die than accept that they're wrong," mental breakdowns will claim more lives than sheer resource scarcity. An audience member chimes in that gatherings like this are intended to pull their heads out of the sand, which Jiang affirms as escaping the Matrix.
[02:20:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=8405s) Free Will, Societal Tragedies, and Personal Hardship
A listener cites Dante's view of free will to ask how one can reconcile divine agency with horrific modern tragedies, such as a mother suffering from severe postpartum depression killing her children, or an adolescent experiencing psychiatric medication-induced psychosis. The questioner asks how a society can process these incomprehensible events and extract meaning from them.
Jiang explains that every soul incarnates into this reality to undergo a unique, individual trajectory. Discerning the broader meaning of extreme suffering is an intensely personal struggle that takes a lifetime to process. To illustrate, Jiang shares his own long-standing struggle to understand why he had to endure his specific upbringing. Arriving in Toronto as a poor immigrant child, he faced relentless bullying, systemic racism, and grinding material poverty—hardships that his family continues to experience to this day.
[02:21:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=8473s) Personal Trauma, Enlightenment, and Truth-Seeking
Reflecting on his upbringing within what he perceived as a deeply anti-intellectual Chinese cultural environment, Professor Jiang recounts the decades he spent struggling with depression and anger. Bearing scars from both his childhood in Toronto and his later education at Yale University, he often found himself questioning why he had to endure such pain: "Why am I here? Like what purpose does it serve anyone for me to suffer like this?" In those darker years, the sheer chaos and misery convinced him that a benevolent God could not exist, because no divine creator could be cruel enough to inflict such pointless suffering. However, looking back with perspective, he has come to view that period of intense personal suffering and questioning as the only possible path toward his own salvation and enlightenment.
Jiang attributes his creative thinking directly to those decades of trauma, though he quickly clarifies with humor that he is not advocating bad parenting: "I'm not saying to traumatize your kids, man. Okay? I'm not saying that." Instead, he suggests that every individual arrives in the world with a distinct purpose, and his own happened to require self-enlightenment forged through tragedy before he could enlighten others. An audience member chimes in, agreeing that traumatic experiences are often what crack people open to deeper questions and radical ideas, noting that trying to reach comfortable people who have never experienced hardship feels like "talking to a robot." Jiang responds by pointing out that for most of his adult life as a teacher, he failed to reach the mainstream; people thought he was utterly insane, especially on YouTube a decade earlier. He kept going because his pursuit was never about external validation or building an audience, but about a personal hunger for truth. Ultimately, he chose lifelong material poverty over compromising himself or reciting corporate falsehoods, noting that living an honest life is a personal choice regardless of whether others follow.
[02:25:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=8713s) Walking the Path: Living Truth over Dogma in Jackson Heights
A listener named Aldemar, an immigrant from Colombia living in the working-class neighborhood of Jackson Heights in Queens, steps up to ask how to share faith and hope with local youth. He paints a bleak picture of his community, where children lack religious guidance and exhausted parents work two jobs seven days a week just to survive. Aldemar explains his internal conflict: while he wants to offer comfort and love, he feels weighed down by traditional religious dogma that reduces faith to rigid behavioral control—warning people they will go to hell if they misbehave and only reach heaven if they are good. He asks Jiang how he can bridge that divide to deliver a genuine message of love without being judgmental.
Jiang offers a simple, pragmatic resolution: abandon the urge to proselytize or convince people through arguments. The most effective way to help others is to embody and live the truth in one's own daily life. When someone authentically practices love, honesty, and hope, those around them naturally recognize it and gravitate toward them on their own accord.
[02:26:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=8809s) Parenting, Teleology, and Seeing Children as Gifts from God
Announcing that the session will wrap up after three more questions because the food is ready, Jiang takes a question about how his understanding of historical cycles and global collapse influences his parenting, asking what values he is most intentional about instilling in his child. Jiang laughs, gesturing toward the back where his eight-year-old son is outside eating, oblivious to the lecture. He confesses that when he first became a father, he arrogantly believed his twenty years of educational experience and extensive reading in neuroscience made him fully equipped to raise the perfect child.
Experience quickly dismantled that illusion. Jiang realized that a child is not personal property to be shaped according to parental vanity, but a gift from God endowed with their own distinct *telos*—an inherent purpose and destiny. Trying to exert rigid control over a child's path only breeds mutual misery and resentment. Instead, he learned to step back and support his son's organic development. As an example, he shares that although he speaks fluent English, his eight-year-old son currently speaks none simply because the boy has never expressed an interest in learning it: "I speak English. If he wanted to learn English, he would ask me, 'Can you teach me English?' He's never done that." For Jiang, genuine parenting requires surrendering the desire for control and accepting the child as an autonomous individual under God.
[02:29:09](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=8949s) The Cost of Compromise: The United Nations in Afghanistan
A questioner asks whether Jiang ever had the opportunity to take a comfortable, well-paying career path and chose to walk away, or if he actively avoided comfort in order to stay true to his convictions. Jiang admits that he is an outlier who has stubbornly refused to compromise his entire life. With a Yale degree and strong writing and communication skills, he easily could have pursued lucrative careers in corporate public relations or operated high-end college admissions consulting in China helping wealthy applicants gain admission to Yale. Yet, he repeatedly chose poverty because working in dishonest environments caused severe somatic reactions: whenever he betrayed his values, he physically could not sleep.
He points to the most miserable six months of his life, when he worked for the United Nations in Afghanistan. On paper, it was the ultimate dream job—exceptionally easy, virtually no real work, a prestigious blue UN passport, and a generous six-figure tax-free salary accompanied by daily five-star restaurant meals. Yet the moral hypocrisy made his daily existence unbearable:
- **Local devastation versus elite privilege**: While ordinary Afghan families were starving outside, international staff lived in insulated luxury on astronomical salaries.
- **Complicity in occupation**: Jiang realized he was acting as a cog in what he viewed as an exploitative and hypocritical occupation apparatus rather than genuinely assisting the population.
- **Physical breakdown**: The cognitive dissonance triggered intense nocturnal teeth grinding, severe anxiety, and involuntary whole-body shaking as he writhed awake in bed.
Unable to stomach the moral injury, he walked away. He concludes that while others might possess a higher tolerance for ethical compromise, he would far rather endure material hardship than forfeit his internal peace by living a lie.
[02:32:21](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=9141s) Opium, the Sackler Dynasty, and Moral Disillusionment
The discussion touches upon the grim geopolitics of the drug trade and the human cost tied to state occupation. Reflecting on foreign intervention in Afghanistan, it is observed that under the Taliban, opium production had been virtually eradicated. However, once American forces entered the country, opium production spiked dramatically. The military presence effectively facilitated large-scale opium output, ultimately feeding raw material into the pharmaceutical pipeline exploited by dynasties like the Sackler family to manufacture prescription opioids.
This corporate-state nexus directly fueled a catastrophic wave of drug addiction and a nationwide suicide epidemic across the United States. Witnessing these operations and recognizing the sheer complicity behind the scenes took a heavy personal and moral toll: "I couldn't sleep at all, and I was so relieved after I quit."
[02:33:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=9180s) Plato’s Cave and the Trauma of Waking Up
As the session draws to a close, Professor Jiang opens the floor for one final audience question. An attendee steps forward and shares how a friend introduced him to the channel several months earlier. Upon encountering Professor Jiang's video on Plato's Allegory of the Cave, the attendee experienced an overwhelming existential crisis, describing the realization that conventional reality is an illusion as absolute "hell." Admitting that he "wept a lot," the attendee asks what advice the professor has for anyone undergoing the devastating psychological shock of discovering that "none of it's real."
```mermaid
flowchart TD
accTitle: The Psychological Arc of Awakening
accDescr: A flowchart depicting the transition from conventional illusion through the painful ordeal of awakening to lasting enlightenment.
subgraph Collapse ["The Shattering"]
A["Illusion of Reality<br/>(Inside the Cave)"] --> B["Confronting the Truth<br/>('Going through hell' / Weeping)"]
end
subgraph Transformation ["The Transformation"]
B --> C["Occult Perspective:<br/>Spiritual Alchemy"]
B --> D["Neurological Perspective:<br/>Synaptic Reconfiguration"]
end
subgraph Integration ["The New State"]
C --> E["Irreversible Awareness<br/>(Cannot go back)"]
D --> E
E --> F["Enlightenment & Serenity<br/>(Eternal soul evolves)"]
end
```
Professor Jiang responds with deep validation, explaining that this intense grief and disorientation is precisely what genuine awakening looks like. Popular culture often misinterprets Plato's cave, imagining that a prisoner stepping into the sunlight is instantly overcome with bliss. In reality, the blinding glare causes agonizing pain and disorientation:
- **The nature of awakening:** Leaving the cave is an inherently hellish ordeal because it shatters an individual's entire baseline of reality.
- **Dual interpretations of the crisis:**
- An occultist would classify this internal breakdown as *spiritual alchemy*—the burning away of base delusions to transmute the soul.
- A neuroscientist would view it as massive *synaptic reconnections*, where the physical brain undergoes a painful rewiring process to reconceive reality.
- **The irreversibility of truth:** While the process of mental reconfiguration feels like torment, once someone passes through it, they can never return to the illusion.
[02:34:25](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rDMq-5_xkM&t=9265s) Synaptic Reconfiguration, Eternal Souls, and Moving Forward
Professor Jiang explains that the sheer agony of this cognitive rewiring is the primary reason the vast majority of people refuse to pursue the truth. Seeing the world as it genuinely is requires abandoning every familiar comfort, discarding conditioned worldviews, and embracing total uncertainty. Because of this, one must avoid judging or forcing the realization onto others. Instead, those who have woken up should cultivate patience, tolerance, and deep respect for those who remain inside conventional illusions: "Just because I went through it doesn't mean you have to go through it."
Ultimately, surviving this crucible leaves an individual fundamentally freer and happier, possessing an unshakeable understanding of how the world actually operates. Offering a final metaphysical perspective, Professor Jiang comforts the audience by framing earthly life as merely a transient phase in a much larger cosmic journey:
- **Metaphysical perspective on suffering:** Human souls are eternal, and the existential lessons learned during this life carry forward permanently.
- **Spiritual progression:** Having completed the painful trial of waking up in this cycle, the soul will not have to repeat the same harrowing process when returning in future stages, arriving far more enlightened and at peace.
With the lecture concluded, Professor Jiang thanks the audience for attending the gathering, gives a warm shout-out to the organizer, Kathy, and brings the New York City meetup to a close.
## Video description
On Saturday, August 15, 2026, Professor Jiang visited New York City to deliver a lecture on why the Iran started, and where it is going. He explains the origins of transnational capitalism, and how secret societies rule the world.
Professor Jiang argues that modern global conflicts and financial systems cannot be understood through conventional political realism, framing contemporary crises as an eschatological project where transnational capital converges with religious messianism, mechanistic rationality, and systemic fragility.
Eschatological War and Financial Fragility (22:39)
Jiang contends that the conflict involving Iran is neither a conventional resource dispute nor a standard balance-of-power conflict, but an eschatological war driven by messianic factions—specifically identifying groups like Chabad-Lubavitch and Christian Zionists—seeking to accelerate biblical end-times prophecy. For transnational capital and the global financial elite, perpetual warfare in the Middle East functions as a primary long-term investment vehicle, mobilizing populations and extracting labor energy under constant systemic anxiety.
Simultaneously, Jiang connects Middle Eastern instability to acute domestic economic vulnerabilities within the United States. Japan acts as the core liquidity engine for global finance, holding $1.1 trillion in US Treasuries and channeling roughly $4 trillion into American markets through the yen carry trade. If Middle Eastern supply shocks drive oil prices upward, forcing the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates to defend the yen, the rapid unwinding of this carry trade would abruptly drain foreign capital from US financial markets, threatening a domestic economy heavily reliant on speculative artificial intelligence valuations.
Contingent Origins and Secret Coordination (26:14)
Jiang challenges the view of free-market capitalism as an inevitable economic development, presenting it instead as an accidental convergence of early modern European crises: Calvinist double predestination, Dutch commercial accumulation, and the 1694 charter of the Bank of England. To stabilize these historical accidents, an ideological framework was constructed to reconcile an inherent structural contradiction: the clash between oligarchic private property and popular democratic sovereignty, achieved by securing public political enfranchisement on the condition that private property rights remain untouchable.
To manage cross-border capital, the emerging order established a dual-track operational structure. Publicly, it deployed Enlightenment philosophies of empiricism and utilitarianism to elevate mechanistic reason above traditional communal ties. Covertly, networks such as Freemasonry and family dynasties like the Rothschilds resolved essential operational hurdles of information access, infiltration, and cross-border coordination across sovereign states, exemplified by the Rothschilds exploiting their early knowledge of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo.
Physical Limits of AI and Civilizational Fragility (90:26)
Skeptical of technological utopianism, Jiang characterizes artificial intelligence as a material dead end. He argues that computing expansion is strictly capped by vulnerable physical supply chains for lithium, silver, and rare earths that fracture during geopolitical conflict. Furthermore, he forecasts that the high capital expenditures and energy demands of AI data centers will lead to an engineered bubble, prompting federal bailouts that nationalize computing facilities into military installations through eminent domain.
Drawing parallels to the Late Bronze Age collapse, Jiang warns that deep global interdependence creates profound systemic fragility rather than resilience. Given planetary ecological constraints that he estimates can sustainably support only around 2 billion people versus the current 8 billion, he anticipates severe resource shortages and mass migrations. Jiang asserts that civilizational crises produce casualties primarily through widespread psychological collapse, as middle-class populations accustomed to institutional stability prove unable to process systemic breakdown.
Consciousness, the Monad, and Practical Faith (110:36)
Rejecting scientific materialism in favor of philosophical idealism, Jiang posits that consciousness precedes physical matter, describing reality as a shared simulation projected from universal consciousness, or the "Monad." In his view, surviving institutional decay requires spiritual alignment rather than materialist optimization. He advises against treating life decisions through purely analytical cost-benefit calculations, framing decisions like starting a family as essential acts of faith that generate purpose and resilience.
Reflecting on his departure from a lucrative United Nations post in Afghanistan due to institutional hypocrisy, Jiang cautions against moral compromise and coercive proselytization. Instead, he maintains that individuals should embody practical ethical conduct in their daily environments, arguing that those anchored in metaphysical awareness will possess the cognitive and emotional endurance necessary to navigate protracted societal disruption.
Jiang frames modern historical upheaval as an inevitable collapse of materialist complacency that forces a widespread awakening. However, his analysis leaves unresolved how decentralized, spiritually grounded individuals can meaningfully counteract or endure the structural dominance of transnational capital and the theocratic restructuring he projects.
Original transcript
[0:00] [applause]
[0:04] Thank you [snorts] so much. Um, it's
[0:06] great to be back in New York City and,
[0:09] uh, tonight there's a lot to discuss.
[0:12] Um, and what I want to focus on tonight
[0:16] is the Iran war, of course, why it's
[0:19] happening, where it's going. Um, so the
[0:23] main argument I want to make you I want
[0:25] to make today is the war in Iran. It is
[0:28] not an traditional war that that you can
[0:33] analyze from a realist perspective. It's
[0:37] not about resources. It's not about uh
[0:39] power dynamics. It's fundamentally an
[0:41] esqueological war. And that's the
[0:44] argument I will make to you today. But
[0:46] it's a very complex argument and I'll go
[0:47] step by step. Okay. So um I'm going to
[0:51] treat this as a ordinary day in the
[0:55] school and you guys will be my students
[0:58] and so the general rule is feel free to
[1:02] interrupt. I am working not from rigor
[1:04] scholarship. I'm working from game
[1:06] theory. So all the ideas that I'll
[1:08] explain to you tonight should be
[1:10] intuitive.
[1:12] Okay? If at any point you're like you
[1:14] know what that doesn't make sense please
[1:17] raise your hand. Please interrupt. Okay.
[1:19] Um, we have a great crowd today. It's
[1:22] packed and so um I I'm really looking
[1:26] forward to participation to to debate to
[1:29] dialogue. Okay. So that said uh let's
[1:32] begin. All right. So let me um first
[1:36] explain the in very simplistic terms the
[1:40] nature of the global economy that we
[1:43] have today. Okay. So there are two main
[1:46] pillars. There is the Middle East, the
[1:49] GCC and then there is East Asia. And how
[1:52] the current economy works is the GCC
[1:55] provides the world with cheap energy.
[1:58] Okay. So this energy is sold primarily
[2:02] to East Asia and East Asia of course is
[2:04] the manufacturing hub of the world. So
[2:07] it takes the energy turns it into
[2:09] manufactured goods and then it moves
[2:12] over to the west
[2:15] uh which consumes these manufactured
[2:17] goods and this in very simplistic terms
[2:19] is how the global economy is structured.
[2:23] Now there is a particular quirk to this
[2:26] system and it's all being um ungoded by
[2:31] the US dollar as a global reserve
[2:33] currency. So what happens is the GCC
[2:36] sells the uh energy in US dollars and
[2:41] then US dollars is recycled back into
[2:43] the US economy.
[2:45] Same thing with East Asia where East
[2:47] Asia will sell its manufactured goods in
[2:49] US dollars and it it will manufacture
[2:52] the uh and then it will recycle the US
[2:55] dollars back into the US economy. Okay.
[2:58] And the idea of the United States as a
[3:01] global reserve currency, it is unique in
[3:04] human history and it has been a disaster
[3:07] for the United States as a nation state.
[3:09] Okay. And there are three reasons why.
[3:11] Um the first reason why is that the
[3:15] United States loses all financial
[3:18] independence.
[3:20] Okay. So the United States must
[3:22] guarantee the free flow of US dollars
[3:27] and United States um has created a
[3:29] financial system in order to facilitate
[3:32] the free flow of capital around the
[3:35] world and this is not good for the
[3:39] United States because you lose financial
[3:42] uh independence. Um the idea of of this
[3:45] is the Euro dollar system. Now, now what
[3:47] the idea of the ER system is all the US
[3:50] dollars started outside the United
[3:52] States and quite honestly we have no
[3:54] idea how much US dollars is outside the
[3:59] United States. Um, and so this dollar
[4:02] system, it actually makes no sense from
[4:04] a national perspective. You have no you
[4:07] have absolutely no idea how much US
[4:08] dollars are in circulation. You have
[4:10] actually no control over how it is
[4:12] circulated. Okay, so that's the first
[4:14] problem with this system. The second
[4:17] problem with the system is
[4:18] financialization
[4:20] which basically means that it in order
[4:24] for this system to work, this global
[4:27] economy to to work, the United States
[4:28] has to become the financial center of
[4:31] the world and shift resource extraction
[4:35] and manufacturing to the other parts of
[4:37] the world. So you hollow out your
[4:40] manufacturing sector. You no longer
[4:43] produce anything. You just speculate.
[4:45] Okay. And we we understand the problem
[4:48] with the system. It leads to corruption.
[4:51] Corruption of course just means
[4:52] Washington DC. Washington DC is the most
[4:55] corrupt place on this planet. They you
[4:57] get nothing done unless you're willing
[4:58] to bribe uh Congress people to do what
[5:01] you want. Okay? So corruption is a huge
[5:02] issue. You have inequality, right? So
[5:06] think of uh New York City. I was in
[5:08] Santa Monica. Santa Monica um uh last
[5:12] week it was the most ridiculous place in
[5:14] the world. Okay, it was just so silly.
[5:17] You have the Pacific Palisades, you have
[5:18] the $100 mil mentions, you have Skid Row
[5:21] where they're all on drugs. It is it's
[5:24] just ridiculous. Okay, inequality and of
[5:25] course you have debt. Okay,
[5:28] so it it's almost like Americans exist
[5:31] in order to go into debt, in order to
[5:33] fuel the global economy. So again, this
[5:35] is terrible for American citizens. Okay,
[5:39] the third thing is just uh Pax
[5:43] Americana. And what I mean by that is
[5:46] this system is predicated on
[5:50] peace in order for people to trade with
[5:52] each other, right? Um so people need
[5:56] free access, free open maritime
[5:59] navigation for the system to work. And
[6:01] the United States must guarantee
[6:03] this free maritime navigation which
[6:06] means a bloated military budget. Okay.
[6:10] The United States must basically uh
[6:13] ensure the entire peace of the world
[6:17] which causes tremendous
[6:20] military um pressure on the United
[6:22] States. If you think about it, this
[6:24] makes no sense because United States
[6:25] doesn't have actually need a military.
[6:28] Okay, I I know this is hard for
[6:29] Americans to understand, but the United
[6:30] States doesn't need a military because
[6:32] there's no nation in the world that
[6:33] would actually dare to invade the United
[6:34] States. Okay. So all that money that
[6:38] goes to the military could it could be
[6:41] instead spent on things like free
[6:44] college or free healthcare. [snorts] All
[6:46] right. But the United States because it
[6:48] is forced to protect global trade and
[6:51] ensure free open maritime navigation
[6:55] then it needs this $ 1.5 trillion
[6:59] uh Pentagon budget. Okay. All right. So
[7:01] this is the world as it is. And as you
[7:04] can appreciate, this is not really
[7:06] sustainable. Okay. And so what we we're
[7:09] seeing right now is the system breaking
[7:12] apart because of the Iran war. All
[7:15] right. So before I continue, any
[7:17] questions about this?
[7:21] Is it all pretty clear?
[7:22] >> Um, yes.
[7:24] >> What are the benefits to the US system?
[7:26] >> That's a great question. So the main
[7:29] benefit is Wall Street is very happy
[7:32] with the system. Okay. So, you got this
[7:34] financial hierarchy that benefits
[7:36] tremendously from the system. All right.
[7:38] And and that's why we still have the
[7:39] system. Uh yes,
[7:40] >> I think you said like there's no way to
[7:42] figure out how many dollars are outside
[7:44] of the US or in the Euro dollar system.
[7:48] Uh why is there no way to calculate
[7:50] that?
[7:51] >> Okay. Um so there's no way to calculate
[7:54] um because a variety of factors. Okay.
[7:57] The first is money is not printed. money
[8:01] is just created off a computer screen.
[8:04] Okay, that's number and banks actually
[8:06] have the capacity to create their own
[8:08] money. Okay, that's number one. Number
[8:10] two is there's a lot of counterfeit
[8:12] money in the system.
[8:15] All right. Okay. Does that make sense?
[8:18] >> Yeah.
[8:18] >> Uh yes.
[8:19] >> Um you're saying that if the US did not
[8:22] have a military, then even then other
[8:25] nations would have not dared to invade
[8:28] the US. Are you saying that because The
[8:30] US has a geographic advantage as a part
[8:33] of being in the western hemisphere.
[8:34] >> Yeah. So, um, United States, it's
[8:36] impossible to invade because it's
[8:38] protected by two oceans, the Pacific and
[8:40] the Atlantic. That's number one. Number
[8:42] two is there are a lot of guns in
[8:44] America. Okay? All right. There's no
[8:47] military, but like you come and invade
[8:50] America, guess what? You'll be fighting
[8:51] for every street corner. [snorts] Okay?
[8:53] It's just pain in the ass. Why would you
[8:55] do it?
[8:56] >> Um, yes. Sorry. I was just going to ask
[8:59] um you say like there's a breakdown but
[9:01] I just want to know like what the
[9:02] symptoms of the breakdown are like what
[9:04] are we seeing right now that show that
[9:06] there's a breakdown going
[9:08] >> well well I explain corruption
[9:11] inequality and debt okay and that's what
[9:13] this that's why the system is not
[9:14] sustainable okay
[9:14] >> I just mean like how do we see that like
[9:18] in our in front of us like what do we
[9:20] see what are the things that we see
[9:23] physically as those symptoms
[9:25] >> okay so the clearest symptom of a
[9:27] breakdown is the 2008 uh great financial
[9:30] crisis. Okay, that is when uh the United
[9:33] States government bailed out Wall Street
[9:35] but not homeowners. That's and the idea
[9:38] behind this is the idea of regulatory
[9:40] capture where Wall Street the fin Wall
[9:43] Street financial elite are able to
[9:44] control the policy levers of Washington
[9:47] DC because from a um um just from a
[9:50] economic policy perspective, you
[9:52] actually want to belt the homeowners and
[9:54] not Wall Street, right? because uh if
[9:57] you bought the homeowners that allows
[9:59] for a more efficient economy, but
[10:02] because you built the Wall Street and
[10:05] not the homeowners, you create a
[10:06] K-shaped economy now. Okay. So the
[10:08] K-shaped economy is basically the best
[10:11] uh indicator that the system is about to
[10:12] break down. Uh yes. Uh uh so if you like
[10:16] we if we don't need this big of a
[10:18] military and we just um said that we're
[10:20] going to be spending $1.5 trillion on
[10:23] our military um who's getting like like
[10:26] which it's clearly corruption. So who is
[10:29] benefiting the most from this corruption
[10:30] because it's not like
[10:31] >> yeah the military-industrial complex
[10:33] >> but like who's specific?
[10:34] >> Okay. So so get on a train and go go to
[10:39] Washington DC and go to the suburbs.
[10:41] Okay. in the suburbs, Fairfax County,
[10:43] Alexandria, they're all mansions. You go
[10:46] back 20 years, right, before the war on
[10:48] terror, uh you go to a place called So,
[10:51] so the wealthiest place in America is
[10:53] actually called Loen County, Virginia.
[10:56] All right. 30 20 years ago, the per
[10:59] capita income of that place was 30,000.
[11:03] Today, it's 90,000. It tripled in 20
[11:05] years time. What happened? The war on
[11:08] terror. That's what happened. Okay. So,
[11:11] so it is the um military-industrial
[11:13] complex. Uh, yes.
[11:14] >> Why has financialization led to
[11:17] inequality? Like I I get it, but I I'm
[11:19] unable to break down the because white
[11:22] collar jobs necessarily are [snorts] a
[11:24] successor to financialization. You have
[11:26] people working in offices, doing IT
[11:28] jobs, tech jobs sort of abstracted away
[11:31] from factory jobs and those were
[11:32] supposed to create.
[11:34] >> Okay, so that's a really good question.
[11:36] So why would financialization lead
[11:38] necessarily to inequality? Um and the
[11:41] reason why is that if you read Thomas
[11:45] uh his book um called capital in
[11:48] the 21st century he explains this very
[11:50] clearly and the idea is that for capital
[11:53] to be lucrative it consolidates.
[11:56] Okay. So what happens is that um once
[12:00] capital consolidates its returns are
[12:03] very very high much higher than if you
[12:06] actually uh engage in real work. Okay.
[12:09] So for example if you were open a
[12:11] factory uh you might have a 2% return a
[12:13] year but with financialization the stock
[12:16] market uh if you invest in stock market
[12:18] you get 5% a year. So in this system the
[12:22] riches get richer the poor get poorer.
[12:23] Okay. All right. Uh yes,
[12:26] >> in your model, the premise right now
[12:28] assumes that America was structured and
[12:31] designed to be an ethnostate. But in
[12:33] some of your previous lectures, you
[12:35] mentioned that the founding idea of
[12:36] America was that if [snorts] you give
[12:39] citizens or people the ability to buy
[12:41] private property and do whatever they
[12:43] want, that is the incentive that the
[12:46] government would want to create. And so
[12:47] by having open capital accounts, a
[12:50] strong banking system, technically we
[12:52] could just say everything you're saying
[12:55] are manifestations that would happen in
[12:57] every civilization throughout time.
[12:59] Inequality and all of these diseases,
[13:02] this warfare has been going on since
[13:04] before Homer. And so we just have a
[13:06] different paradigm of a different
[13:08] country that in this current world is
[13:10] not the ethnostate, but we have a
[13:12] hallucination that it is.
[13:14] >> Okay. So, so I'll explain this later on.
[13:17] Okay. So, I apologize. I forgot I'm in
[13:19] New York City, not in China. Okay. So,
[13:21] we have to cut this out. Okay. But
[13:23] there's one last question. Yes.
[13:25] >> Yeah. Um, I was wondering that if the
[13:28] case like pulls out the money from the
[13:32] the stock market, it's going to be
[13:34] economic
[13:36] or some issue. I don't know if that's
[13:37] what you said, but I looked it up and
[13:40] the GCC only accounts for like one to
[13:43] like 2% of the US stock market. So, how
[13:46] would that have a profound effect?
[13:49] >> Yeah. So, I mean, okay. So when we say
[13:53] like the GCC and East Asia are recycle
[13:55] the US dollars in the US economy that
[13:58] doesn't necessarily mean the US um stock
[14:01] market. It could also mean hedge funds.
[14:03] It could also mean real estate, right?
[14:05] Because the stock market is only a very
[14:06] small portion of the US economy. Okay.
[14:09] All right. But but but I'll explain more
[14:11] as we go on. Okay. All right. So So
[14:12] let's go let's go on. All right. So now
[14:14] I want to explain the war in Iran and
[14:18] how it is spinning out of control. Okay.
[14:21] So originally the war was between u
[14:25] United States and Iran. Okay. So the
[14:28] Iran the United States strategy going
[14:30] into the war was very simple
[14:31] decapitation which means you knock out
[14:33] the leadership and then um everyone else
[14:38] because you're because they love
[14:39] democracy, they love freedom, they love
[14:41] human rights, they love only fans,
[14:43] whatever. Okay, they rebel and then you
[14:46] have um a democracy. Okay, that's that
[14:49] was literally the plan going into the
[14:52] war. Didn't work out. The Iranians are
[14:54] much much more resilient. The Iranians
[14:56] have counter measures against the
[14:58] strategy including closing off the
[14:59] certif
[15:07] primarily going to East Asia. So this
[15:10] creates a bottleneck in your entire
[15:12] global economy, right? This disrupts the
[15:14] model that that I previously presented.
[15:17] But not only that, but as this war is
[15:19] progressing, the Houthies have been
[15:21] brought into the war. Okay, the Hoosies
[15:23] are a huge problem because they control
[15:25] another strait called the um the Bab L
[15:30] Mandabra. Okay. Um and it screws the
[15:33] Saudi Arabia. All right.
[15:37] Um Hezbollah and uh Israel are at war.
[15:42] Then Iraq is also um at war right now.
[15:47] As you know, recently there's been a
[15:50] Middle East
[15:52] military alliance signed by three
[15:54] countries. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and
[15:57] Pakistan. Okay. Uh this is Turkey right
[16:00] here and this is Pakistan. All right. So
[16:02] what I think what's is going to happen
[16:04] is Saudi Arabia sees the Houthis as an
[16:07] ex ext exentious threat and they will
[16:09] they will move against Houthies. They're
[16:11] probably backed by Israel. Israel has
[16:13] military bases over here. Okay, so
[16:15] they've surrounded the Houthies. Um the
[16:18] problem is with this system, the
[16:22] Iranians have figured out that if you
[16:25] have four points of attack, okay,
[16:27] including um Hespala, which can attack
[16:29] the Shal, the Houthies, which can block
[16:32] the B and um that straight and then the
[16:35] Hummus. What you've done is you choked
[16:37] off the entire Middle East. Okay? And
[16:41] also like you know the uh GC saying like
[16:45] we'll just build pipelines
[16:47] you know that's Okay because
[16:49] like if the drones can attack ships they
[16:51] can probably attack pipelines as well.
[16:53] It's probably easier for them to attack
[16:54] pipelines cuz they're so huge right? So
[16:57] the GC is simply screwed. But it also
[17:00] shows you that um because they're
[17:02] proposing to build pipelines which cost
[17:04] billions of dollars and years to build
[17:06] and they're not really a solution. It
[17:08] tells you that they don't really know
[17:09] what to do. they could really screwed in
[17:11] this. Okay. Um, now what's important to
[17:14] also remember is that Russia regardless
[17:17] of what happens can always supply uh e
[17:21] Iran from the Caspian Sea and China for
[17:24] its bottom road initiative can supply
[17:26] using railways. And so what's going to
[17:29] happen is that this war has to expand
[17:32] globally. Okay. uh you have this uh
[17:35] problem in the Middle East and then it's
[17:37] going to link up with the war in Ukraine
[17:39] and this will be a global um situation
[17:42] and this is going to destroy the global
[17:44] economy and the issue with this is
[17:46] remember these countries recycle US
[17:50] dollars back into
[17:53] uh the US um economy especially Japan
[17:56] right remember Japan has $1.1 trillion
[17:59] of US treasuries Japan what Japan does
[18:03] for the glo global economy is provide
[18:05] liquidity. All right? And what what and
[18:07] so the idea is something called the
[18:08] Japanese yen carry trade. You guys may
[18:12] know what this is, but the idea is it's
[18:14] really the dumbest thing in the world
[18:15] where the Japanese banks will lend money
[18:19] to Japanese corporations at 0% interest
[18:21] rate. And the idea is well when you do
[18:24] that you are providing liquidity for the
[18:27] Japanese economy, right? Because
[18:28] deflation is a huge problem in Japan.
[18:31] The Japanese corporations are like,
[18:32] well, we could do that, but there's a
[18:35] much simpler way to make money, which is
[18:36] we'll go buy US treasuries at 5%. Okay,
[18:39] we we're borrowing money at 0%. We are
[18:42] getting 5% by buying US treasuries. So,
[18:44] we'll take that e we'll take that free
[18:45] 5%. Thank you very much. Okay, and so
[18:47] because Japan does this, what it's
[18:49] really doing is providing liquidity for
[18:51] the liquidity liquidity for the world.
[18:53] Okay? And the liquidity by the way is
[18:54] about $4 trillion.
[18:59] The problem with this is like Japan uh
[19:02] gets most of it oil and energy from the
[19:05] Middle East. So the second thing is oil
[19:07] and energy investors are like uh maybe I
[19:10] shouldn't put my money in Japanese yen,
[19:12] right? So now the Japanese yen is
[19:14] sinking. And so what the United States
[19:17] is doing is like okay we need to save
[19:19] the Japanese yen because if the Japanese
[19:21] yen sinks then the the the bank of Japan
[19:24] is going to recall all this liquidity
[19:26] from the world to save the Japanese yen
[19:29] and this will cause economic collapse in
[19:32] the United States remember because
[19:34] United States the United States um 50%
[19:37] of US GDP growth is AI data data data
[19:41] centers right so like it's a bubble so
[19:45] you need this liquidity from the GCC,
[19:47] from China, from Japan. This war means
[19:51] that these countries will have to um be
[19:55] much more nationalistic and so liquidity
[19:56] will dry up which will eventually cause
[19:58] US collapse. There's just no way around
[20:00] this. Okay? So
[20:03] um given the situation, there is a
[20:06] solution
[20:07] to this. There's a way for the United
[20:09] States to win this war. Okay? And all
[20:12] United States has to do two simple
[20:13] things. If it does these two simple
[20:14] things, this war in Iran will end right
[20:19] away and the US economy will be saved.
[20:23] Okay? So the first thing United States
[20:25] can do is
[20:28] give Iran $2 trillion.
[20:31] Okay? And this would be disaster for
[20:35] Iran. So the example, the historical
[20:39] example is of course something called
[20:40] the Plaza Accord. The plastic cord
[20:43] happened because Japan at this point in
[20:45] history but 1980s was the dominant
[20:48] manufacturing power in the world and the
[20:51] Japanese yen was very weak which meant
[20:54] that the Japanese were absorbing
[20:56] liquidity from the world. Okay. And this
[20:59] cause was causing huge problems for the
[21:01] US economy and for the global economy.
[21:03] So the plaster cord was an agreement um
[21:07] between Japan and the G7 nations Europe
[21:10] and United States that Japan would uh
[21:14] would um increase the value of currency.
[21:18] Okay. And this allowed Japan to buy
[21:20] property really cheaply overseas. Okay.
[21:23] And so now now you've reversed the
[21:25] situation. You before you absorbing
[21:27] liquidity and now you are um
[21:30] transferring liquidity to the world.
[21:32] Okay. And so this was terrible for Japan
[21:35] because it led to 30 years of deflation,
[21:38] stackflation, economic um um silency,
[21:42] but it was great for the United States,
[21:44] right? So why not just do this for Iran
[21:47] as well? Give Iran $2 trillion. It's US
[21:50] dollars. So they're eventually going to
[21:51] have to have the recycle back into the
[21:53] United States economy, right? They'll
[21:54] buy resources to rebuild. Uh a lot of
[21:57] this re US companies will be allowed to
[21:59] go United States. United States
[22:01] companies will will will be allowed to
[22:03] go to Iran to rebuild infrastructure to
[22:06] um sell oil around the world. It's great
[22:08] for everyone, right? So that's number
[22:10] one. Okay, $2 trillion $2. But there's
[22:13] something else that that has to happen
[22:14] which is
[22:17] [clears throat]
[22:18] contain Israel. Okay. Israel. Yes, I
[22:22] [clears throat] understand. Yes. Okay.
[22:23] But let me finish. Okay. Let's pretend
[22:26] that [laughter]
[22:27] Okay. Okay. Israel is a hu is a huge
[22:30] problem in the Middle East because
[22:31] they're always going out starting wars,
[22:33] right? So what you do is say to Israel,
[22:35] we're going to embar you no more weapons
[22:36] for you guys and like we're going to
[22:39] sanction you. If that would happen,
[22:40] peace would come to the Middle East,
[22:42] [clears throat]
[22:42] >> right? Just do these two simple things,
[22:44] we would all live peacefully ever after
[22:47] and the global economy will be saved.
[22:49] Okay, we know for a fact none of these
[22:52] things are going to happen. Okay, so
[22:54] like this is really strange. How do we
[22:56] get in this in in a situation where 8
[22:59] billion people, the fate of 8 billion
[23:02] people on this planet, it's all being
[23:05] determined by this one little country,
[23:08] okay, of like what 9 million people in
[23:11] the Middle East. The country is so
[23:13] small, it's you can't even find on a
[23:15] map, okay, of the of the Middle East.
[23:18] So, this is the question we will examine
[23:22] tonight.
[23:23] What is going on where the United
[23:25] States, the most powerful country in the
[23:27] world, it is not able to protect its own
[23:31] national interests and it's only
[23:33] advancing the interests of this again
[23:35] really small nation in a desert
[23:38] somewhere, right? And we and what we've
[23:41] already discussed the consequences for
[23:43] this war are just tremendous. It's the
[23:46] end of civilization basically, but the
[23:48] United States is still allowing Israel
[23:51] to do whatever it whatever it wants.
[23:53] Okay. All right. So, the main argument I
[23:56] want to make to you today is this war
[23:58] makes no sense unless you look at it
[24:01] from an esquetological perspective. This
[24:03] war is meant to usher in the end times.
[24:07] This war is meant to bring in the
[24:10] Messiah if you're Jewish and to um have
[24:14] Jesus return if you're Christian. That's
[24:15] the only explanation for what's going
[24:17] on. If you look at it from any other
[24:18] lands, it makes absolutely no sense.
[24:21] Okay, any quick questions? Uh yes,
[24:25] >> that model fails to acknowledge Islam.
[24:27] Iran is a big player. What? like you're
[24:30] saying the return of Jesus and and then
[24:33] you're saying the end of time for the
[24:35] Jews, but then you have the Shia,
[24:38] Islamic, and you have the Sunnis. Why
[24:40] are they missing in the model?
[24:43] >> Um so um
[24:47] um you're right in that um there are
[24:50] religious fanatics in Iran. Okay. Shia
[24:53] martyrdom is a very powerful force, but
[24:56] it is only a minority within Iran,
[24:58] right? So there are um if you go to Tran
[25:02] uh the capital most people are secular
[25:04] the intellectual class the the
[25:05] government uh bureaucrats a lot of them
[25:07] are secular. So um where and it's the
[25:11] same thing in Israel where you go to
[25:13] Israel 40% of of Israelis are actually
[25:16] secular. So what's really strange about
[25:20] the world we're living in is history.
[25:23] It's being determined by this very small
[25:26] minority in each of these different
[25:28] nations whether it be Iran, Israel or
[25:31] United States. Yes.
[25:33] >> Uh just to respond to this uh there's
[25:35] like the 12 Shia um 12 Shia Islam,
[25:37] right? Like that's the esqueological
[25:39] belief within those groups. Um right.
[25:42] Right. So like just watching your
[25:43] lectures um Iran's not the enemy in this
[25:46] war. It's the United States to remove
[25:49] the United States from the Middle East
[25:51] to create like to um establish you know
[25:54] Israel and the greater Israel project
[25:56] and patch as the hegeimon in the Middle
[25:59] East.
[25:59] >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. So for when I
[26:03] say the end times I mean they have to
[26:04] fulfill a certain prophecy and I'll
[26:07] explain what this prophecy is. Okay. All
[26:09] right. Uh so guys guys guys I we'll be
[26:12] here all night if if we Okay. All right.
[26:14] All right. So that's number two. Okay.
[26:15] So number one is we've um established
[26:19] how the global economy works. Number two
[26:22] is we've looked at how this war
[26:24] threatened to destroy the global economy
[26:27] and how this war is really being fought
[26:30] for on the at the behalf of Israel.
[26:32] Okay. Now what what I'm what I'll try to
[26:34] do is explain how is it that we got to
[26:39] this unique moment in history. So I I'll
[26:42] explain to you the history and origin of
[26:45] capitalism. All right. All right. So
[26:48] capitalism
[26:51] capitalism
[26:52] is a historical accident.
[26:55] Um I know that uh most of you believe
[26:59] that capitalism is just the best way to
[27:02] run the world. But what I want to show
[27:04] you um is that in fact it's a
[27:07] convergence of several historical
[27:09] accents that has create the world that
[27:11] we live in today. Okay. So the first
[27:15] historical accent is Calvinism. And in
[27:18] Calvinism there's a very important idea
[27:20] called double predestination.
[27:26] and double pre pred destination the idea
[27:29] is at the beginning of time when god
[27:32] created the universe he already decided
[27:35] the destiny of everyone he already
[27:37] decided who is going to go to heaven and
[27:38] who was go who will go to hell okay so
[27:41] double meaning heaven and hell
[27:42] predestination means it's already been
[27:45] decided
[27:46] why we have double pre pred
[27:48] predestination
[27:49] was it was a rhetorical response to to
[27:53] the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church
[27:55] was able to control people because
[27:57] Catholic Church could determine whether
[27:59] or not you went to heaven or hell. That
[28:02] was the source of the of the power. And
[28:04] Calvinism was tried to subvert the power
[28:07] by saying, "No, the church doesn't have
[28:09] this power. Only God has this power and
[28:11] God has already decided." So no matter
[28:13] what you do, there's no matter what the
[28:16] church says, the fa your fate has
[28:18] already been been decided because at
[28:20] this point in history, indulgences were
[28:21] a huge problem. indulgence words is
[28:23] bribes to the church so that if you're a
[28:25] bad rich person you could um basically
[28:28] get to heaven still. Okay. So Calvinism
[28:32] now Calvinism what's really interesting
[28:35] um is it creates a more dilemma that
[28:38] didn't exist before which is like how do
[28:40] you know if God has chosen you or not?
[28:44] Right? Before
[28:46] like you would know because the church
[28:47] will tell you if you were selected or
[28:48] not. But now like you have to believe if
[28:52] you're chosen or not. And so the way
[28:55] they remedied this is through the idea
[28:58] of wealth creation. Okay. Wealth
[29:03] basically if you're wealthy it means God
[29:06] favors you. That makes sense, right? Um,
[29:10] but the other thing that's interesting
[29:11] is
[29:13] communism demanded that you make wealth
[29:16] but at the same time also not spend your
[29:18] wealth because you have to prove you are
[29:23] um you are a good person, right? So you
[29:27] make a lot of wealth but you can't even
[29:29] spend your wealth. And this goes against
[29:31] human intuition because historically
[29:33] when we make a lot of money, the first
[29:36] thing we do is spend on our friends and
[29:38] family, right? Because we take this
[29:40] wealth and we transfer it into status
[29:43] for ourselves in a community. And that's
[29:45] what that's what intuitively we did in
[29:47] the past. And but now Calvinism breaks
[29:50] this cycle and says, "No, no, no. If you
[29:52] make a lot of money, you also have to
[29:55] save it, which basically means you have
[29:57] to invest it." And this is weird, okay?
[29:59] But this basically creates
[30:02] capitalism. You can't spend your money.
[30:04] You you can only save it. And because of
[30:07] this concept, you now have a new entity
[30:08] in the world called the Dutch Republic.
[30:10] And what the Dutch Republic would do is
[30:13] take people's savings and then start
[30:16] these enterprises around the world that
[30:18] that led to a spice monopoly. And at
[30:20] this time in history, spices are the
[30:22] most valuable thing in the world. And
[30:23] the Dutch Republic because of of of the
[30:25] of communism now becomes the wealthiest
[30:28] region in the world and they create
[30:30] really the world's first idea of a
[30:32] middle class. Okay, this is this this
[30:35] leads of course called the something
[30:36] called the Dutch Renaissance.
[30:38] Um the problem with this is the Dutch
[30:40] Republic used to be part of the Habsburg
[30:43] Empire and now that they're so wealthy
[30:46] um they're constantly being invaded. So
[30:48] you have all this money. You have to
[30:51] protect this money in order to get to
[30:52] heaven. That's this you're taking to
[30:54] heaven. But how do you prevent the
[30:56] Catholics from coming and stealing your
[30:57] money? Okay. This led to something
[30:59] called the glorious revolution. Okay.
[31:00] 1688 glorious revolution. This is the
[31:02] second historical accident.
[31:09] So the glorious revolution is really a
[31:11] marriage of the um dominant protestant
[31:14] powers in Europe at this time which
[31:16] which are England and the Dutch Republic
[31:19] right um so what with the glorious
[31:21] revolution what happens is the Dutch
[31:23] Republic now transfers their gold their
[31:26] wealth to England why because England is
[31:29] an island protected by the Royal Navy
[31:31] the Royal Navy is invincible
[31:34] right so it's really it's really the
[31:35] best place to store your money.
[31:38] The glory revolution then leads to
[31:40] something called leads to the chartering
[31:42] of the Bank of England. Okay, this is
[31:44] the third historical accident. The Bank
[31:46] of England 1694.
[31:50] The Bank of England is unique in history
[31:52] because it's run by merchants, right?
[31:55] Historically, merchants would lend money
[31:57] to kings for their wars. The problem is
[32:01] the kings could die. They could lose the
[32:03] war or they could be like, "Screw you.
[32:05] I'm the king. I don't have to pay you
[32:07] back." Right? So, this is this always a
[32:09] huge problem for these merchants. The
[32:10] Bank of England solved this problem
[32:12] because they're lending money not to the
[32:15] king but to Parliament.
[32:19] Okay? So, basically the Bank of England
[32:22] and it's again it's so weird if you
[32:24] think about it. It is a private bank
[32:27] that is guaranteed by the people of
[32:30] England. Okay? Now you're lending money
[32:34] not to the king but to the English
[32:37] nation which means that as long which
[32:40] basically means that as long as there's
[32:42] one Englishman alive
[32:44] uh that person has to pay you back. All
[32:46] right. So it's a really weird system but
[32:49] this creates our our modern financial
[32:51] system. The bank England model of course
[32:52] will be copied with the Federal Reserve.
[32:54] Okay, so the Federal Reserve system that
[32:56] in the United States is model of the
[32:58] Bank of England system. Now this system
[33:01] is great because what it allows is
[33:03] basically for infinite financing. So the
[33:06] example is the Napoleonic wars when
[33:09] England was trying to fight Napoleon for
[33:12] dominance in Europe and England lost six
[33:14] times. It only won once but England only
[33:18] need needed to win once because it has
[33:20] infinite financing. No matter how badly
[33:22] Napoleon defeated them on the
[33:23] battlefield, England could just print
[33:25] money and says, "Okay, we'll bribe you
[33:28] Prussians or Russians to go fight
[33:30] another war." Okay? And and so um the
[33:34] Bank of England basically creates the um
[33:38] the British Empire. Okay? So capitalism
[33:43] um then what happens of course is these
[33:46] ideas will then spread to the United
[33:49] States and create the American empire.
[33:52] All right. So these are all historical
[33:55] accidents. Calvinism was was an
[33:57] accident. Glorious revolution bank of
[33:59] England United States. These are all
[34:00] historical accidents. Okay. But once you
[34:02] have these accident in place you now
[34:04] have to explain them. You have to create
[34:06] a philosophy or religion, a bureaucratic
[34:09] system in order to manage these
[34:12] accidents. Okay. So now I'm going to
[34:15] explain to you um how they did so. But
[34:18] are we clear so far? Yes.
[34:20] >> Uh one question. So a lot of this looks
[34:23] like the the act of money lending has
[34:25] been encouraged, eased up or you know
[34:28] just uh increased over time. Why is
[34:31] that? Many religions discourage that you
[34:34] know adise their followers not
[34:36] engagement.
[34:37] >> Yeah, exactly. So, um most religions, I
[34:41] would say all religions banish usery.
[34:44] Okay. Um why? Because userie was the
[34:47] most um destructive element in society.
[34:51] Um it basically caused all sides to to
[34:53] collapse sooner or later. So all all
[34:55] religions ban usery. Um, Judaism is
[34:59] unique in that it only bends you usually
[35:02] for the members
[35:04] of the religion. But so if you're
[35:06] Jewish, you can't lend money at interest
[35:09] to other Jewish people, but you can lend
[35:11] money at interest to Gentiles. Okay. But
[35:14] all the religions ban uh usually because
[35:17] it was such a socially volatile force,
[35:20] right? Uh yes.
[35:22] >> Not that I disagree, but what makes each
[35:23] event an actual accident? The Calvinism
[35:25] one I understand a bit more. Yeah,
[35:28] >> but the charter and such accident,
[35:31] >> right? Okay. So, when I mean accident, I
[35:33] mean they were not planned
[35:35] strategically. They were all response to
[35:37] a specific problem that that arose at
[35:40] that particular time. Okay. Does that
[35:42] make sense?
[35:42] >> Yes.
[35:43] >> Okay. Thank you. All right. All right.
[35:44] So now I'm going to explain to you the
[35:47] philosophies that develop because of
[35:49] these historical accidents. Okay. Now
[35:50] you have capitalism. Now you have to
[35:52] explain capitalism to the people. All
[35:54] right. So um they had certain
[35:58] philosophers in place to develop a
[36:00] system in order to explain capitalism to
[36:03] the people and to justify it. Okay. So
[36:06] um one country c country that arose is
[36:09] democracy and private property.
[36:15] If you think about it these two things
[36:18] are actually a a structural
[36:20] contradiction.
[36:21] We you guys live in the United States.
[36:23] think this is the most normal thing in
[36:25] democracy. Of course, you have private
[36:26] property. But actually, if you think
[36:27] about it logically, it doesn't make any
[36:29] sense because private property basically
[36:30] means an oligarchy, right? Democracy
[36:33] means rule by the people. So, the people
[36:36] choose if they vote to say, you know,
[36:38] like we want to redistribute wealth,
[36:40] they should be allowed to do so because
[36:42] it's a democracy,
[36:43] right? But private property idea of
[36:45] private property is it is an inherent
[36:47] and inalable right given to you by God.
[36:50] Therefore, you are not allow allowed to
[36:52] touch each other's private property.
[36:54] Okay? So, we have this system as a
[36:57] response to the Bank of England because
[36:59] the Bank of England is private property,
[37:01] but it's guaranteed by the people. So,
[37:04] how do you get how how do you how how do
[37:07] you elevate um elevate this
[37:09] contradiction? By saying to people,
[37:11] well, it we have a democracy. Okay? You
[37:13] choose to uh respect each other's
[37:17] private property. Does it make sense?
[37:19] Okay. So this is a contradiction but
[37:21] this arose because of the of the
[37:22] inherent contrary nature of the bank of
[37:25] England. All right. Another contra
[37:28] contradiction that rose at this time is
[37:31] that reason and emotion
[37:35] were distinct. This you guys don't
[37:38] appreciate this but this is actually a
[37:39] revolution in human thought because if
[37:43] you look at every other culture before
[37:46] this
[37:48] reason came from emotion right the idea
[37:52] that you could think independently of
[37:54] your emotion was ridiculous to everyone
[37:57] like go read the Greeks go read the
[37:59] Chinese every ancient civilization is
[38:02] the heart and the mind are aligned in
[38:04] fact in China we say the the heart is
[38:06] the mind. Okay, you think of your
[38:08] emotions and look all the neuroscience
[38:11] tells us that is that is true. Okay, our
[38:15] memories are essentially emotions and
[38:16] our memories become the the um units for
[38:20] our thinking. But so the question is why
[38:24] did they come up with this silly idea
[38:25] that again is counterintuitive? The
[38:27] separation between reason and emotion
[38:31] and the answer is because of what reason
[38:34] means. Okay, reason in this formulation
[38:38] actually means capital
[38:41] and emotion means
[38:45] family, tradition, nation, community.
[38:49] Okay, does that make sense? So for in
[38:51] order for capital to win it it's
[38:54] transational capital there has to be a
[38:56] free movement of goods people and ideas
[39:00] and whatever obstructs the free movement
[39:03] of capital is inherently bad and we and
[39:08] they're labeled as emotions. Okay does
[39:10] that make sense? All right. So again, we
[39:13] think these things are just intuitive.
[39:14] But if you think about it logically, it
[39:16] makes no sense and they came up with
[39:19] these formulations as response to the
[39:22] distinct nature of capitalism at this
[39:24] time. Uh yeah.
[39:26] >> Uh so you say that like in the French
[39:30] revolution they saw God as reason and in
[39:34] Greek literature they see the gods as
[39:36] like emotions.
[39:37] >> Yes.
[39:37] >> Like they act in the world. So
[39:41] is that like why when they started to
[39:44] see God as reason and then they
[39:46] conflated reason with capital that's how
[39:48] we got to where we are.
[39:50] >> Okay. All right. So uh that's a really
[39:52] good question. Okay. But but but let me
[39:54] explain the the history. Okay. All
[39:56] right. Let let me finish this section
[39:58] and then it'll become clear to you. All
[39:59] right. So you have these ideas um that
[40:03] are contradictions
[40:05] um that that must that must be come in
[40:10] place in order to allow for transational
[40:11] capital to dominate the world. Okay. The
[40:13] first is like democracy and are not
[40:16] contradictions. They are they are
[40:18] intertwined together. They are the one
[40:19] and the same. The second is that reason
[40:21] and emotion are separate. Whereas before
[40:22] in human history we saw them as one and
[40:25] the same. Okay. Um so in order to
[40:31] promote the system of trans capital you
[40:33] need both an public layer as well as a
[40:35] secret layer. Okay the public layer is
[40:38] just what we call philosophy and uh the
[40:40] three main philosophies that develop in
[40:43] order in order to justify the system are
[40:45] empiricism skepticism and
[40:48] utilitarianism. Okay, David Hume, Jeremy
[40:50] Bentham, um John Lockach. Okay, I I
[40:53] won't go too much into it, but there's a
[40:55] secret layer to all this. The secret
[40:57] layer is Freemasonry.
[41:00] Okay.
[41:06] All right. Freemasonry is the religion
[41:10] of reason. If you read Freemasonian
[41:13] texts, whether it be Albert Pike,
[41:15] Morrison Dogma or Manley P. Hall, they
[41:17] use a phrase over and over again, it's
[41:19] like it's the idea of holy empire of
[41:22] reason.
[41:25] What is this? It's a holy empire of
[41:27] capital. Okay. So again, this is really
[41:30] important for us to appreciate. Reason
[41:32] in their eyes is capital.
[41:35] All right? So um and this created a
[41:38] revolution
[41:40] in human cognition because before if I
[41:45] met someone I might be like okay where
[41:49] you from right that's the first question
[41:51] I would ask you like what community are
[41:52] you part of right now I might be like
[41:55] how much money do you have
[41:58] you understand okay I again this United
[42:01] States so you think this is the most
[42:02] intuitive thing to judge people by how
[42:04] much money they have but Historically we
[42:06] judge people by the comm community that
[42:08] they come from. Okay. The god that they
[42:10] worship
[42:12] uh who their fathers are um who their
[42:14] parents are right. Okay. So this is the
[42:18] idea. Okay. Freemasonry was developed in
[42:20] order to better organize structure and
[42:24] manage capitalism secretly. Right?
[42:27] Because remember the idea is democracy
[42:30] is just a facade created in order to
[42:32] fool people to agree to uh let bankers
[42:37] run the world. Okay. But you need a real
[42:39] management system and this real
[42:41] management system is called Freemasonry.
[42:44] All right. Okay.
[42:46] >> Were religious organizations against it
[42:48] or were they part of it?
[42:49] >> Excuse me.
[42:50] >> Were the religious organizations
[42:52] Catholic Church with this? I mean okay
[42:55] with this? within or within?
[42:58] >> Yeah, that's a great question. Okay. All
[43:00] right. So,
[43:02] let's use game theory. Okay. So, the
[43:05] question is,
[43:07] okay, you have this secret organization
[43:08] called the Freemasons and they actually
[43:10] are transial capital and they want to
[43:12] conquer the world and spread capital
[43:14] everywhere. Uh there must been
[43:16] organizations against this system. Well,
[43:18] there were. Okay. The problem is that um
[43:25] this system is set up so that capitalism
[43:26] will always win out. Okay? So if you go
[43:30] align yourself with capitalism then you
[43:33] win out. If you go against capitalism
[43:34] you lose out. Right? So think of of
[43:37] history where things like monarchy
[43:41] uh organized religion the Catholic
[43:43] Church basically um community they're
[43:46] all being they're all being withered
[43:47] away right? Okay, so you see all this
[43:50] massive migration to United States into
[43:53] Europe. You're like, well, who's doing
[43:54] this? And the answer is it's capitalism,
[43:56] guys. Okay, capitalism demands a free
[43:59] movement of people, goods, and ideas.
[44:02] And so if you try to stop them, then
[44:04] they see you as an enemy. Okay, but but
[44:07] let me use game theory to explain what's
[44:08] going on. All right, so um transial
[44:13] capital is the most powerful force in
[44:15] the world. Um and so if you go against
[44:19] transial capitalism, you will be
[44:22] destroyed. Okay. And if you look at the
[44:25] movement of human history for the past
[44:28] 200 years, it's been the triumph of
[44:30] trans capitalism. Okay. So the fir the
[44:32] first example is the French revolution.
[44:35] The enlightenment is really the
[44:39] expression of capitalism. Uh the
[44:43] political expression of capitalism,
[44:44] right? is what does the enlightenment
[44:46] call for? The enlightenment calls for
[44:47] the free movement of ideas, people and
[44:52] goods, right? Okay. The enlightenment
[44:54] leads to what? The French revolution.
[44:56] Then what happens? You have the rise of
[44:58] communism. Now, what's really
[45:00] interesting is if you talk to these
[45:02] Freemasons, they think communism is the
[45:04] best thing in the world. Why? Because
[45:06] communism is a triumph of human reason
[45:08] above emotion. Right? Communism demands
[45:12] that you put the public good, the reason
[45:16] above family, community, emotion, love,
[45:22] nationalism. Okay, that's what communism
[45:24] is. So if I if if you look at the past
[45:27] 200 years, 300 years, it's been the
[45:30] relentless march of human reason of
[45:33] capital but taking different guises,
[45:36] taking different forms, whether it be
[45:38] the French revolution or communism or
[45:41] capitalism. Okay. All right. Does that
[45:44] make sense? All right. So let me explain
[45:48] um how what's been happening. Okay. So I
[45:50] say Freemasonry
[45:52] um is the organizing system behind
[45:55] capitalism. But but what what does that
[45:58] mean? Okay. So transnational capital
[46:04] means capital across different nation
[46:07] states. Okay. When you do that you have
[46:09] a problem. Um and so what they realize
[46:13] is if you're able to solve three
[46:15] problems you will triumph. Okay. The
[46:17] first problem is uh information.
[46:22] Second problem is infiltration.
[46:25] The third problem is coordination.
[46:30] Okay.
[46:31] So the classic example of the
[46:33] Rothschilds. the Rothschilds had um um
[46:37] their family was spread out in the
[46:39] different capitals of Europe including
[46:40] Frankfurt where where they're from but
[46:42] also Paris, London
[46:44] um and
[46:47] one story that stood out is is the 1815
[46:50] battle of Wateroo. So the British and
[46:53] the Persians fought Napoleon at the at
[46:54] the battle of Wateroo and of course
[46:56] Napoleon lost. Now the Rothschild had
[46:59] agents to monitor the battle. When when
[47:01] the battle was declared, the agent got
[47:04] on a corvette, which is a fast ship, and
[47:06] sailed across the English Channel and
[47:08] told the information to Roth Charles 3
[47:10] days before the public knew. Okay.
[47:13] During these three days, there was a
[47:15] wild panic because for the reason, we
[47:17] don't know who did it, but there are
[47:19] rumors spec going around that the
[47:21] British had lost the battle. All right.
[47:25] Okay. So this is the idea of
[47:27] information, infiltration and
[47:28] coordination. Information means how do
[47:30] you access information quicker than
[47:32] other people. Infiltration is how do you
[47:34] put agents into certain places that
[47:36] allow you to access sensitive
[47:37] information and coordination is how do
[47:39] you work across different nation states
[47:41] in order to break the game in your
[47:44] favor. Okay? And the best way to do this
[47:47] is through secret societies.
[47:49] Now at this time in history
[47:52] [clears throat] there are maybe three
[47:54] transnational forces in Europe. They are
[47:57] of course the Freemasons,
[47:59] they are the Jesuits and they are the
[48:01] Jewish diaspora. Okay. And eventually
[48:04] what they realize is well you guys we
[48:07] could just work together right? When you
[48:09] combine the three Masons
[48:11] uh with the Jesuits and with the Jewish
[48:14] diaspora you get or organization called
[48:16] the Illuminati.
[48:18] All right. The Illuminati.
[48:21] All right. So, the best way to
[48:22] understand this is, okay, I'm not saying
[48:26] that
[48:28] they're planning this out. Okay. Um,
[48:31] what they are doing is this. Okay. There
[48:33] are different organizations. There are
[48:35] different organizations and they all
[48:37] have a range of certain behavior. Okay?
[48:42] There are people within within the
[48:43] Catholic Church who are protrans
[48:45] capital, people who are against
[48:46] transerial capital.
[48:49] What I'm saying is that secret societies
[48:52] are convergence point a convergence
[48:54] point of these different organizations
[48:56] and because they allow because they have
[48:58] they're able to coordinate secretly
[48:59] together, they will always win out.
[49:02] Okay? Doesn't make sense. All right? So
[49:04] I'm not saying that most people are part
[49:07] of secret society. I'm saying like if
[49:08] you choose to be part of secret society,
[49:10] you will have you will be at a greater
[49:13] advantage than if you are not. Okay? If
[49:15] you're just a government bureaucrat,
[49:17] you'll just be government bureaucrat for
[49:18] the rest of your life. But if you're
[49:19] part of secret society and you're g
[49:20] bureaucrat, then your friends will help
[49:22] promote you in the bureaucracy. Then
[49:26] you'll be given investment
[49:27] opportunities. Then your children will
[49:29] be allowed to go to the most elite
[49:31] universities. Okay? So it is your
[49:33] advantage to join the secret society. Um
[49:36] Okay. All right. Does that make sense,
[49:38] guys? Uh, yes.
[49:40] >> So, you named three of them, but what
[49:41] are the organizations or you know,
[49:44] institutions that lost out like who can
[49:46] trace their history to see degraded as a
[49:49] result of this coordination?
[49:51] >> Okay, that's a great question. Okay, so
[49:53] um, one thing I disagree with people
[49:55] about is how these studies are
[49:57] continuous, right? So what people say
[50:00] okay was well it start started out with
[50:01] the night templars which was the
[50:03] original secret society and then it
[50:05] evolved to become the freemasons and
[50:08] then they become the roian the um and
[50:11] and I don't believe this is what
[50:13] happened I believe that secret societies
[50:16] are just a natural byproduct of
[50:17] transnational capitalism because the way
[50:19] to win this game is by forming secret
[50:21] societies but secret societies usually
[50:25] revolve around a charismatic figure okay
[50:28] and So maybe the charis figure will go
[50:30] we'll start a new organization called
[50:31] skull and bones right and be and then
[50:34] he'll uh because he's so successful very
[50:37] successful people people gravitate
[50:38] towards him but eventually what happens
[50:40] is these people become very arrogant
[50:42] their children become very arrogant and
[50:44] the secret society gives way to other
[50:46] secret societies but what I think is
[50:48] true is the most powerful secret
[50:51] societies are esqueological
[50:57] Okay. So, what I mean by that is if
[50:59] you're so excited and you're like, you
[51:01] know, we're here to like, you know, make
[51:03] a lot of money and uh enjoy ourselves,
[51:06] you won't do as well in the long term as
[51:08] we're here to serve God and we're here
[51:10] to bring God to our world. We're here to
[51:13] usher in the end times. Okay? Um, and
[51:17] there are certain reasons why. The first
[51:20] reason why is if it's esquetological,
[51:22] it's a script that you can play out over
[51:25] centuries. If it's not if it's not
[51:27] esquetological then it usually revolves
[51:30] around a karatic leader who when he dies
[51:33] the organization devolves okay that's
[51:35] the first thing okay it's it's it's it
[51:37] can span centuries because it's a script
[51:39] second thing is that uh you can have
[51:43] more people participate in the movement
[51:46] right you can scale it out if it's
[51:48] escological and the third thing is
[51:50] people tend to be much more energetic
[51:52] when they think that oh I'm going to
[51:54] bring up the end times We are going to
[51:57] take the world to paradise, right? This
[51:59] is a jihad. Okay. So, um, societies that
[52:03] are esquetological
[52:05] tend to do better than societies that
[52:08] secretes that are not esotical. Okay?
[52:10] And specifically, secret societies that
[52:12] practice called the cabala do the best.
[52:15] All right? The cabala. So now what I'm
[52:18] going to do is I'm I'm explain to you
[52:20] the cabala. Okay? So if you know
[52:22] Freemasonry, if you read books like
[52:24] morals and dogma by Albert uh Pike,
[52:27] they're very open about the structure
[52:28] and what what you'll recognize is
[52:31] Freemasonry tries to be the religion of
[52:33] reason. It tries to absorb all the best
[52:35] practices of every single religion out
[52:37] there [snorts] and come up with like you
[52:39] know the empire of reason. Um and so
[52:42] maybe at the bottom uh levels um you'll
[52:45] have like Pythagoras, the Egyptians. Um
[52:50] um but as you go up the highest level,
[52:52] it it's the Cabala. Yes.
[52:54] >> Why did the Freemasons feel that reason
[52:57] was above emotion when they founded
[53:00] Freemasonry? What led them to the
[53:02] decision? Was it coordination? They felt
[53:05] they
[53:06] reason as opposed to
[53:08] >> Okay. All right. So um I'm not so they
[53:12] didn't plan this out. Okay, remember all
[53:15] this all this is being a response to a
[53:17] certain problem, right? So you are
[53:20] trying to spread transial capital around
[53:22] the world. And so how do you convince
[53:25] yourself and others that capitalism is
[53:29] good? Well, what you do is you create a
[53:32] distinction between reason and emotion
[53:35] where reason is capital, right? Let's
[53:37] make things for money and emotion is
[53:40] prejudice, right? No, I I can't make
[53:42] money because my religion doesn't allow
[53:44] for it. Okay. So, so that's what
[53:47] happened. It isn't like, you know, the
[53:49] Freemasons had an epiphany which is
[53:50] like, oh my god, reason and emotion are
[53:52] se are separate. No, no, it was a
[53:55] response to a problem that they had.
[53:58] Okay, does that make sense? Okay, so the
[54:01] cabala, what what was the cabala? Okay.
[54:03] And again I want to be um concise. Okay.
[54:07] The cabala.
[54:09] The cabala it is an understanding of how
[54:13] the universe works. Okay. Why are we
[54:15] here? Where are we going? Where the
[54:17] universe come from. And what the cabala
[54:19] says is that God is the will to bestow.
[54:26] Okay. He's God, right? He's all generous
[54:29] and he wants to share himself with
[54:30] others. Problem is there's no one to
[54:33] share it with. So uh to know to know
[54:36] itself to complete itself God creates um
[54:40] Adam Kenmmont. Okay. The first man the
[54:42] cosmic man and Adam Kenmont becomes the
[54:45] will to
[54:47] uh receive. Okay. But if you're the will
[54:49] to receive, you see things purely from
[54:52] an egotistical perspective, which means
[54:54] you don't really appreciate why God
[54:57] wants to give you anything. So you you
[54:59] reject God's gift. And when you reject
[55:01] God's gift, the universe breaks. Okay?
[55:04] And so now you have the separation
[55:06] between us and God. So the purpose of
[55:10] the universe is to
[55:14] come to an enlightenment so that we're
[55:16] able to receive God's gift. Um this
[55:19] could mean spiritual alchemy. Okay. All
[55:22] right. And um that is the the Cabala at
[55:27] a very general level.
[55:30] There are radical factions who um read
[55:33] the Cabala and they interpret it
[55:35] literally, okay, through the lens of the
[55:37] Bible.
[55:39] And so they take this idea that the
[55:42] entire purpose of humanity is to uh seek
[55:45] reunion with God. [clears throat] And
[55:46] they use the Bible
[55:48] um as a script or as a plan. and they
[55:52] interpret it literally which means to
[55:55] say they want they want to seek rene God
[55:59] by acting out God's divine plan as told
[56:03] in the Bible. Okay. And what this divine
[56:05] plan basically means is okay well the
[56:09] Jews must first res return to Israel in
[56:13] order to fulfill the covenant between
[56:15] the Jews and God. Then the um uh Jews
[56:21] must build the third temple as a resting
[56:23] place for for God. And this will
[56:25] initiate the war of Gog and Magog. And
[56:28] when the Jews are most in need, then God
[56:31] will come and save them and save the
[56:34] world. Okay? Because what um we of God
[56:37] means is opening your heart to God. And
[56:40] this means to repent. Okay? So this is
[56:43] how they interpret and again I'm talking
[56:44] very general terms but this is how they
[56:47] interpret uh their role literally. Okay,
[56:50] this is why we're seeing what was
[56:51] happening in the Middle East. Why are
[56:54] the Israelis committing genocide in Gaza
[56:56] like that? That's like just insane. You
[56:58] don't have to do that guys. Okay, but
[57:00] they're perfectly doing it and they're
[57:02] doing in 4K. Why? Because they want the
[57:04] whole world to see this. because they
[57:06] want to they want to initiate the war of
[57:07] gag and magog which will force the
[57:09] Israelis to come together.
[57:12] Okay, that's why antism is growing in
[57:15] the world and this will force the world
[57:18] of Gog will force the Jews to repent and
[57:21] turn to God and then the world will end.
[57:23] Okay. And then they can build the third
[57:25] temple. This is this is why it's
[57:27] happening. So um I want to really dis
[57:29] but I I want to explain why the cabala
[57:32] is so powerful and it's so powerful
[57:34] because there's a sexual
[57:39] energy
[57:41] um and desire
[57:44] that the cabala unleashes right because
[57:47] it's sexual the idea of like re reun
[57:49] reunifying with God okay we were part of
[57:51] God we left God and now we will become
[57:53] with God again it's a sexual union and
[57:56] that excit excites people. Okay, I hate
[57:59] to say this, but like have you guys seen
[58:01] Peter Hexf give press conferences? The
[58:04] guy's literally when he's talking about
[58:05] the war, it's almost like he's having an
[58:07] orgy. Okay, he's having an orgasm. Okay,
[58:10] and like the tells you this guy's been
[58:12] reading the cabala a lot.
[58:15] Like I'm serious. Like these guys um who
[58:18] are committing genocide like Peter Peter
[58:20] HV, they literally see it in sexual
[58:22] terms like you know we're so close to
[58:24] achieving the end times. We are so close
[58:27] to becoming one with God. Okay. They're
[58:30] excited about it. All right. Okay.
[58:33] >> I don't get it.
[58:34] >> Excuse me.
[58:34] >> I like I I'm listening the whole time
[58:36] like I really don't get why people
[58:38] really believe that this is how you get
[58:40] close to God. Killing and killing and
[58:42] killing. That's so far from love.
[58:44] >> Yeah. Okay. That's a great question.
[58:45] Okay. So from an intuitive perspective,
[58:48] it makes no sense because why can't you
[58:51] just open your heart and um welcome God?
[58:55] And the answer is it's too goddamn slow,
[58:59] man. Okay, you could do it, but can your
[59:01] neighbor do it? Can your neighbor's
[59:04] neighbor do it? Probably not. Okay, but
[59:06] for the cabal to work out, everyone has
[59:07] to do it. So how do you create the
[59:09] condition so that everyone is forced to
[59:11] do it? So my question is what I as a kid
[59:15] because I grew up in a very religious
[59:17] home when I was being conditioned I
[59:18] would always ask well why only one type
[59:22] would God choose as the chosen that
[59:24] makes no sense to me it felt even as a
[59:26] kid and even now as an adult it feels
[59:28] like that's a false god that's a false
[59:30] belief because my intuition doesn't
[59:32] believe this the whole world
[59:35] >> yeah okay that's a great point okay so
[59:37] you can argue there are a lot of logical
[59:40] fallacies within in Judaism uh
[59:42] especially uh messianic Jews. Okay, you
[59:45] you can say they're crazy. The problem
[59:48] is the world is not run by reason. The
[59:51] world is not run by who's right or who's
[59:53] wrong. The world is run by those who
[59:56] willing to sacrifice themselves in order
[59:57] to achieve what they want. Okay, that's
[59:59] the issue. Okay, these people are crazy,
[60:03] but that's why they run the world
[60:04] because they're willing to make
[60:05] sacrifices that no one else is willing
[60:08] to to do. So the example I have is you
[60:12] guys remember um of this um Muslim who
[60:17] killed these two Christians outside the
[60:20] um Israeli embassy in Washington DC.
[60:23] Do you guys remember that incident?
[60:25] >> And and this was a married couple. They
[60:27] were Christians and they were I think
[60:28] volunteering [snorts] at the Israeli
[60:31] embassy and uh they caught a Muslim and
[60:35] he was clearly drugged out. Um, and I
[60:39] don't speculate too much, but there are
[60:42] people online who think that these two
[60:44] Christians purposely martyr themselves
[60:48] in order to advance the Zionist cause.
[60:51] Okay. Does that make sense?
[60:53] >> Yeah.
[60:53] >> Like for them death means nothing. If if
[60:55] if I die in order to accelerate the
[60:58] coming of God, then it's worth it.
[61:02] >> But it's not coming. That's the whole
[61:03] thing.
[61:06] again again like like like it's not
[61:09] about who's right and who's wrong. It's
[61:10] about who's willing to work the hardest
[61:13] to achieve his or her ends. Okay. And
[61:17] and these people are the are the
[61:18] craziest. So so they usually get get
[61:20] what they want. Okay. Uh so think think
[61:22] of the Israel lobby which is basically
[61:25] like just just one issue, right? If you
[61:27] go into Israel, we'll come after you.
[61:29] We'll spend like $30 million. And you
[61:31] like like Thomas Massie was this one
[61:35] lone voice in Congress. He was
[61:36] completely powerless. He was a pain in
[61:38] the ass. But like honestly, who cares?
[61:40] They spent $30 million to get to to get
[61:42] rid of this guy. Then you have like, you
[61:44] know, Abdul Ali in Michigan, right? $30
[61:48] million spent by Apac to uh against him
[61:52] and then $60 million total against him.
[61:55] So they're fanatical, right? You're
[61:57] like, is it really worth it? like like
[62:00] you you might have like five people in
[62:01] Congress who are against Israel.
[62:02] Everyone else is for Israel. Like you
[62:04] the map still is in your favor, right?
[62:06] They don't care. Like no, if one person
[62:09] we don't care who it is, that one person
[62:11] is against us, we'll go after that
[62:13] person and make sure he or she can can
[62:16] never be in Washington. Okay. So So, so
[62:19] it's fanatical. Uh yes. Did you have a
[62:21] question?
[62:22] >> Yes.
[62:23] >> 911 it was a sacrifice.
[62:28] Um [laughter]
[62:30] so um so so so
[62:34] let me continue. Okay. Then 911 will
[62:36] make sense. Okay. Okay. So
[62:40] so so you're like okay well okay you
[62:42] have these religious fanatics. Yes.
[62:44] >> Before we continue on this on this
[62:46] topic. So how come China doesn't have
[62:51] corresponding organizations or societies
[62:54] like
[62:56] capitalists etc.
[62:58] >> Right.
[63:00] >> Yeah. Because China has families. Okay.
[63:03] So families take the place of secret
[63:05] societies. Right. Because China it's not
[63:08] transnational. It it it it China works
[63:10] within its own borders. So you don't
[63:12] really need secret societies in order to
[63:15] win out. Okay. So families in China went
[63:18] out over secret societies because
[63:19] families are much more close-knit than
[63:20] civil societies. But in in the in in the
[63:23] world in the western world where um the
[63:26] geography is much more spread out where
[63:28] cultures are much more diverse the civil
[63:30] societies will win out over over
[63:32] families. Okay. Does that make sense?
[63:34] All right. All right guys I we can be
[63:37] all that. Okay. But but let let me
[63:38] finish my point. Okay. So I'll do one
[63:40] more section which is like okay there we
[63:43] we we have a question which is okay
[63:44] you've got these crazies in these in the
[63:47] secret societies that want to usher in
[63:48] the end times but this this is bad for
[63:51] transational capital right and the
[63:54] answer and and so what I want to show
[63:55] you now is actually if you're transial
[63:58] capital you like these guys okay so
[64:03] we're seeing an alliance between trans
[64:04] capital and mezanic um secret societies
[64:09] And that this is why we live in the
[64:10] world that we live. All right. So let me
[64:12] explain to you why as capitalist I
[64:14] actually like these guys. All right.
[64:18] So so
[64:22] one thing to keep in mind is
[64:26] capital has no value in itself. Capital
[64:30] is a tool for me to extract your energy,
[64:33] your attention, your consciousness.
[64:34] Okay? Does that make sense? All right.
[64:37] So if I'm a traditional capitalist and
[64:39] like America is so wealthy rich, right?
[64:41] So filthy rich, right? I'm in New York
[64:43] City. Um maybe the average family here I
[64:47] I'm saying hypothetically each family
[64:49] has a million dollars. That means the
[64:50] kids don't have to work, right? But if
[64:53] the kids aren't working, then the system
[64:55] breaks down. So I need to create a
[64:57] condition um where people are forced to
[65:00] work. So if so capitalism
[65:05] um it creates wealth but it also must
[65:07] destroy wealth at the same time. It
[65:10] doesn't make sense right and there and
[65:12] the best way to destroy wealth is
[65:13] through war and revolution. All right so
[65:17] this so this is how capitalism will work
[65:19] and again I'm not saying this is a plan
[65:21] but I'm saying this is the nature of
[65:22] capitalism to do this. All right. So I'm
[65:24] the United So I'm I'm the United States
[65:26] and it's the wealthiest country in the
[65:28] world and all the capital is here. But
[65:30] this has led to moral, social and
[65:33] political decay, right? Too much debt,
[65:35] too much corruption, too much
[65:36] inequality. And now I can't invest in
[65:39] United States because I can't get any
[65:41] returns, right? Like
[65:44] what do I invest in United States like
[65:46] AI AI data centers? There's no return in
[65:48] that. Okay? So this war in the Middle
[65:53] East
[65:54] which will usher in Paka
[65:58] this is the best investment opportunity
[66:00] for me right now right because imagine
[66:02] okay like maybe 5 10 years down the road
[66:05] the Middle East is destroyed well it's
[66:07] good for me because if you're destroyed
[66:10] I can now rebuild okay so uh coming here
[66:14] I I took the New York subway and I
[66:17] [laughter] was like wow And you guys
[66:20] have to take this away every day, man.
[66:21] That's that's going to tell. And I'm
[66:23] like, okay, what do you do with the New
[66:25] York subway? Because it's going to cost
[66:27] you a fortune to renovate it, right? And
[66:29] it'll take you forever to renovate it.
[66:32] So, your only solution if you're
[66:33] capitalist is okay, is to burn it down,
[66:36] right? Is that the cheapest way, the
[66:38] most effective way to
[66:41] um renovate the New York subway? You
[66:43] just burn it down first, right?
[66:45] Otherwise, it's it's it's taking like 50
[66:47] years and billions of dollars, $200 in
[66:49] order to actually make it modern, right?
[66:51] It's just cheaper and faster. Just burn
[66:53] it down. But if you want to burn down
[66:54] the New York subway, you probably have
[66:55] to burn out in New York City as well,
[66:57] right? But I'm telling you this, this is
[66:59] how these guys think. Like, how do I get
[67:02] return the best return for my money? And
[67:04] the best return for my money is to
[67:06] invest in places after war, after
[67:10] destruction. Okay. So, so, so they moved
[67:13] their capital to Israel to Pax Judea
[67:17] and a lot of this capital is also going
[67:19] to um Argentina,
[67:21] Australia, Ukraine,
[67:24] um the Mediterranean. Okay? So,
[67:27] basically places that are virgin
[67:29] territory, right? And it's all being
[67:32] anchored by Pax Judeica. Does that make
[67:34] sense? All right. So when the money
[67:36] shifts away from the United States, you
[67:39] have economic collapse. Economic
[67:40] collapse leads to civil war. Now New
[67:43] York City is burned down. The New York
[67:44] subway is burned down. Which means what?
[67:45] Which mean now I can invest in a new
[67:47] subway system. So now after like maybe
[67:49] 10 20 years, my capital can return to
[67:53] the United States. Okay. So another way
[67:56] of saying this is the only way for
[67:58] capitalism to
[68:00] work is a constant cycle of destruction,
[68:03] revolution, and war. Without these
[68:05] things, capitalism cannot work. Okay, it
[68:07] doesn't make sense. So, you think, okay,
[68:10] well, these cabalists are crazy, but
[68:12] these capitalists are are kind of crazy,
[68:14] too.
[68:16] So, okay. Uh, that is it. Uh, um, I look
[68:21] forward to your the questions. Okay. All
[68:23] right.
[68:24] >> U, well, we we'll do a fireside chat
[68:26] first, right? Okay.
[68:27] >> Okay. Cool. So, uh, I took a lot of
[68:29] questions that you guys put in the
[68:31] questionnaire and compiled them and
[68:34] asked right now and afterwards we'll do
[68:37] a broader Q&A so anyone can ask any
[68:40] other question. [snorts]
[68:41] >> So we'll just start with the first
[68:43] question here. Does China have does
[68:45] China have similar secret societies?
[68:47] What does it look like? I know we kind
[68:48] of talked about it but
[68:49] >> Yeah. Right. So um there are secret
[68:52] societies in China. There are secret
[68:54] societies everywhere. Um and they're
[68:56] basically family focused. Right. So it's
[68:59] usually one family and it's usually a
[69:01] criminal organization triads and then
[69:05] they um obtain power and they become
[69:08] legitimate. Um so the Chinese system it
[69:14] uh the problem with the Chinese system
[69:15] is that it's it's not transnational.
[69:17] It's only within a certain ethnic uh
[69:20] network. Um so it's much more limited in
[69:23] uh in in scope. The other issue with the
[69:25] Chinese secret societies is they're not
[69:26] esqueological. They're political, but
[69:29] they're not esqueological.
[69:30] >> Okay.
[69:31] >> Can I ask a follow question?
[69:33] >> Yeah.
[69:33] >> Um
[69:35] I heard I may be wrong, but I heard that
[69:38] um the south they have infiltrated into
[69:41] the top um CPC officials like people and
[69:47] has been since they came to China in 194
[69:49] 188.
[69:52] So it never
[69:54] That's what I heard. But um whatever it
[69:57] is and they're now in kind of in China.
[70:03] Do do you see that they are the the
[70:07] Freemason they are as determined as
[70:10] before in the 1950s
[70:13] to scramble strand of China just like
[70:16] people.
[70:18] >> Yeah. Okay. So um China
[70:23] is in many ways have been colonized by
[70:26] secret societies by by these um um by
[70:30] transial capital. So the the goal of
[70:33] traditional capital is to go to a place
[70:35] and extract as much energy as possible
[70:37] and trans and transfer it into uh
[70:40] capital and that's what's happened in
[70:42] China and you know I would make the
[70:45] argument that China has really hollowed
[70:46] out right so um in the 80s and 90s China
[70:52] transational capital went into China and
[70:54] built factories in order to extract the
[70:56] energy of its uh demographic and then
[70:59] afterwards Um and and and and um I I
[71:04] don't think people appreciate this, but
[71:05] China could have only embarked on it
[71:07] infrastructure infrastructure spending
[71:09] with the aid of China capital, right?
[71:12] Because you needed resources to build
[71:13] these highways and skyscrapers. So
[71:16] capital that allowed China to uh uh buy
[71:21] these resources from Australia, from
[71:22] South America. uh because at that time
[71:24] 2008 uh there's an agreement between the
[71:27] bank of international settlement and
[71:28] China to increase the value of the UN of
[71:31] of the Chinese UN which allows China to
[71:33] buy up all these resources um and this
[71:36] infrastructure spending has really
[71:37] hollowed out the [snorts] uh Chinese
[71:40] economy uh because
[71:43] uh this infrastructure spending has led
[71:45] to corruption, inequality and debt as
[71:47] well. So, so China's basically done. Um,
[71:50] and there's really no real growth for
[71:55] potential for for China and and that's
[71:57] why trans capital is shifting from the
[71:59] United States and China to the Middle
[72:00] East. Right? Again, if I'm a capitalist,
[72:03] I'm a trillionaire, I'm always looking
[72:05] for uh a place where which will grow.
[72:09] And I think the United States and China
[72:11] are in the same boat. They're both
[72:12] empires in decline.
[72:14] >> Okay. Do you see a kind of similar
[72:17] repeat of what happened in 1950s when
[72:20] they try to embargo China? China will
[72:22] just close up and then
[72:26] >> Yeah. So I I think what's going to
[72:28] happen is that China will be embargled
[72:32] by it running uh neighbors and it will
[72:34] just remove itself from the global
[72:36] financial system, the global supply
[72:38] chain. It's going to turtle up. But when
[72:40] it does that, it's going to lead to
[72:42] structural contradictions. Why? because
[72:44] people in the in the urban areas are
[72:47] used to a modern western lifestyle. And
[72:50] so,
[72:52] um, if there if there's not enough food,
[72:54] I I I know this sounds silly, but if
[72:55] there's if there's if there's if there's
[72:56] not enough food, the people in the urban
[72:58] areas, Beijing and Shanghai, want to
[73:00] maintain their current lifestyle. And if
[73:04] there's not enough food, guess what's
[73:06] going to happen? There's going to be
[73:07] famine in the in the in the countryside.
[73:09] This is what happened during the great
[73:11] fort as well. So I I I I'm not very
[73:14] optimistic about China. And
[73:15] >> so you're saying that there will be kind
[73:17] of things.
[73:19] >> I I think so. Yes. Yeah. Okay. All
[73:22] right.
[73:22] >> Okay. Next question. What are the
[73:24] historical analogies of the current day
[73:26] techn technology transitions and
[73:28] consolidation of power?
[73:30] >> Um so I see AI as a logical extension
[73:37] of this holy empire of reason, right?
[73:41] Because what you're trying to do is
[73:44] you're trying to allow for the rapid
[73:49] almost seamless frictionless movement of
[73:52] people, people, goods and ideas. Okay.
[73:57] And Freemasons appreciate that. The main
[74:01] constraint
[74:03] on this, okay, is are humans. Why?
[74:08] Because humans have emotions,
[74:10] right? And emotions are prejudices.
[74:12] They're biases and they prevent the
[74:16] seamless movement of um goods, people
[74:20] and ideas. So you you have to break
[74:22] that. Okay? You have to transform
[74:24] people. They call it spiritual alchemy.
[74:25] [snorts] Um and to do that and so AI is
[74:30] considered a tool in order to achieve
[74:34] this.
[74:35] Um so that's what AI is. A AI is not
[74:39] just a surve surveillance tool. What AI
[74:42] is, I mean AI will help us as humans
[74:46] achieve full enlightenment,
[74:49] right? So imagine a microchip implanted
[74:52] in your head, Neurolink, right? That's
[74:54] always telling you the right thing to
[74:56] believe. And if we if we're able to
[74:58] synchron synchronize all of human
[75:01] consciousness, then that would lead to
[75:04] paradise, right? because all biases, all
[75:07] prejudices, all negative emotions will
[75:10] be wiped out from from the world. Okay.
[75:13] So, so that's what's happening. Uh AI is
[75:17] not necessarily a revolution. AI is just
[75:19] the fulfillment of capital,
[75:23] right?
[75:24] >> Okay. What is the future state of the
[75:26] Middle East in the short term following
[75:28] the conclusion of the Iran war? And is
[75:30] there any realistic chance that the
[75:32] existing global power structures will or
[75:35] even can be changed in meaningful ways?
[75:38] >> Um, okay. First of all, this war in Iran
[75:40] will never end. It just can't end
[75:43] because the war in Iran, [snorts] it's
[75:47] fundamentally a conflict between capital
[75:49] and religion. Okay? Um,
[75:53] and Israel represents capital and Iran
[75:57] represents um religion. So this this is
[76:00] a contradiction and only one can can win
[76:02] out over the other but it's impossible
[76:04] for one to defeat the other. I mean the
[76:07] idea of the United States sending in
[76:09] ground troops against Iran, it's going
[76:11] to lead to a quagmire that that could go
[76:13] on for for decades. Um but if you're a
[76:18] capitalist, you don't really care,
[76:19] right? Because
[76:22] all you're looking to do is extract as
[76:24] much energy from people as possible. And
[76:26] war does that. you know, war makes
[76:28] people anxious. It makes them uh work
[76:31] work harder. So, the the the war in the
[76:33] Middle East, it's a perfect investment
[76:35] opportunity if if you're a capitalist.
[76:37] And again, guys, like I'm not saying
[76:38] this if you're a millionaire, okay? You
[76:40] don't matter if you're millionaire. I'm
[76:42] saying this if you're a trillionaire,
[76:43] okay? Uh if you're trillionaire, then um
[76:47] the war in the Middle East is a perfect
[76:49] investment opportunity. Um
[76:52] um and the question is, is there an
[76:55] alternative to this? And the alternative
[76:58] is um the return to religious
[77:02] nationalism.
[77:03] Um so countries like Iran and Russia
[77:07] present a direct threat to capitalism.
[77:10] [clears throat]
[77:10] Um so uh they call this duganism
[77:13] actually dugan uh who proposes who who
[77:17] basically says capitalism is the
[77:19] antichrist system. All right. It's the
[77:21] beast and it negates all that is good in
[77:26] humans and it includes family
[77:29] um community emotion emotions like like
[77:32] like like love. Okay. So this is really
[77:34] the great struggle that humanity will
[77:36] face over the next 50 years and and
[77:38] these this struggle is rep represented
[77:40] by the United States versus Russia.
[77:43] >> Excuse me. Uh you just said likeism,
[77:45] right? the idea of like Russia operating
[77:47] at the catacon for preventing the
[77:49] antichrist from from occurring.
[77:51] >> Yes.
[77:52] >> Um like like do they represent one of
[77:55] the two figures in Gog and Magog, right?
[77:57] Like the idea of like operating a
[77:59] massive war against this.
[78:01] >> Okay. So there are different
[78:02] esquetological systems. Okay. In the
[78:05] Russian third Rome esquetology,
[78:08] Russia is a catacon. Okay. And it's
[78:11] meant to stop the antichrist from
[78:13] conquering the world. The antichrist of
[78:15] course is capitalism, right? But then
[78:17] you have the um Christian Zionist
[78:21] esquetology which which perceives
[78:25] um Russia and Persia as Gog and Magog.
[78:28] Okay. It doesn't make sense. Okay. But
[78:30] but these are different esquetologies.
[78:32] >> All right.
[78:32] >> Professor, can you speak a little bit
[78:34] more about the antichrist that Peter
[78:36] Theo is obsessed with
[78:38] and what his version of what is he
[78:41] trying to tell us? like what is he
[78:43] implying with you know he goes and meets
[78:45] Javier and gives him a lecture about
[78:48] what is he trying to say
[78:50] >> I think Peter theo is carrying on the
[78:53] Freemason tradition and I I I don't know
[78:55] Peter the you you you should ask Kathy
[78:57] but um [laughter]
[79:00] but I think what Peter Theo is doing is
[79:04] carrying on the Freemason tradition and
[79:06] for the Freemasons the antichrist is
[79:10] whatever force that stops human reason
[79:12] from reaching its full potential. Okay,
[79:15] does that make sense? Okay, what what
[79:17] the freebies believe is if human if
[79:20] everyone uh if human reason is allowed
[79:22] to dominate, okay, then human reason can
[79:26] achieve godhood. Okay, our collective
[79:29] reason becomes God itself as represented
[79:31] by AI. So whatever force that stops the
[79:34] advent of reason, the advance of AI is
[79:37] fundamentally against God and therefore
[79:40] the antichrist. Okay. Does that make
[79:41] sense? That I think is a subtext of of
[79:44] what of what he's saying.
[79:48] >> All right.
[79:49] >> All right. Um, will American
[79:50] universities in the GCC survive?
[79:53] >> Nope. [laughter]
[79:55] >> Nope.
[79:56] >> Next question. [snorts]
[79:57] >> Yeah.
[79:58] >> How will how will the Iran how will the
[80:01] Iran and Ukraine wars converge? And how
[80:04] will there be both an AI and private
[80:06] bubble AI private bubble crash and
[80:09] hyperinflation at the same time? That's
[80:11] a little different.
[80:12] >> Okay, so um these wars have to converge
[80:16] because Russia is supplying Iran through
[80:20] the Caspian Sea and um Ukraine sees sees
[80:26] as opportunity to combine both fronts.
[80:28] Okay. So the Zilinski ordered a drone
[80:30] strike against an Iranian cargo ship uh
[80:33] transporting through the Caspian Sea.
[80:36] And the idea is that um if you provoke
[80:40] the Iranians, the Iranians will begin to
[80:43] attack Europe and Ukraine because a lot
[80:46] of drone factories are based in in
[80:48] Europe. And so I think this is just this
[80:51] is this will just happen naturally
[80:54] because um it's really hard to separate
[80:57] these fronts and more actors will be
[80:59] brought in over time because the stakes
[81:01] are so high. Um what what's the other
[81:04] section?
[81:05] >> Uh how will there be both an AI private
[81:07] bubble crash and hyperinflation at the
[81:10] same time? Okay, you you have
[81:12] hyperinflation
[81:14] because fiat the fiat currency which is
[81:16] US dollar it's moving slowly towards
[81:19] zero. Okay, so that's a problem and the
[81:24] AI credit private uh credit bubble will
[81:28] pop because liquidity has been removed
[81:31] from the US system. Right? So the GCC,
[81:34] Japan are no longer able to invest in
[81:36] United States because because of of of
[81:37] their own problems,
[81:39] >> right? Uh yes.
[81:41] >> Uh so if the AI bubble crashes
[81:43] eventually, which is going to um could
[81:45] that be like wealth destruction? So like
[81:47] if the wealth is destroyed, the people
[81:49] have to work.
[81:50] >> Yeah.
[81:50] >> Who's going to benefit and whose wealth
[81:52] will be?
[81:52] >> Look, all these bubbles are engineered.
[81:55] All right. So the fact that the media is
[81:57] telling you the bubble is going to burst
[81:59] basically is is is is telling you like
[82:01] there are some vested interests that
[82:03] want this bubble to to burst. And who
[82:05] are these vested interest? Well, I would
[82:06] assume the big AI companies, right?
[82:10] Because why would you as Omen want the
[82:12] bubble to burst? And the answer is the
[82:14] government has to come bail you out now,
[82:16] right? You're too big to fail. The
[82:18] bubble burst, open AI goes bankrupt.
[82:21] This is a disaster for the American
[82:24] economy. Therefore, Trump has no choice
[82:25] but to nationalize data centers, right?
[82:28] And and why why would you want that?
[82:30] Because now you socialize the losses and
[82:32] privatize the gains, right? The data
[82:35] centers cost you a lot of money and
[82:37] they're hard to implement because
[82:38] because of community um reaction, but if
[82:42] but if Trump and the United States
[82:44] government comes in and nationalize
[82:45] these data centers, they there are now
[82:47] military installations. Now you have
[82:49] imminent domain. Now now the communities
[82:51] can't complain, right? And data centers
[82:55] are the main cause of AI companies. So
[82:58] you want the bubble to burst so that the
[83:00] federal government can come in and save
[83:02] your ass and then um Yeah. Right. Does
[83:07] that make sense?
[83:08] >> Yeah.
[83:08] >> Okay. Uh yeah. Yeah.
[83:12] >> So you mentioned this in one of your
[83:13] lectures as well like the engineering of
[83:15] bubbles bursting I think implies like a
[83:19] mechanism of control. So in this
[83:22] instance, what would you say is the like
[83:26] lever? Is that a sample that can cause?
[83:30] That's a really good question because
[83:32] this AI bubble is distinct from other
[83:34] bubbles because going you go back to the
[83:36] 2008 uh subprime crisis there there was
[83:39] a trigger me mechanism which was the
[83:41] home default, right? Um
[83:44] but with this AI bubble, it's a secular
[83:47] financing. So it's basically seven
[83:48] companies and it's a circle jerk.
[83:50] They're all financing each other and as
[83:52] long as they agree to not burst a
[83:55] bubble, the bubble won't won't burst.
[83:58] Um,
[84:00] so
[84:02] um what is the mechanism that will
[84:04] [snorts]
[84:05] burst this bubble? And the answer is
[84:07] well those make something up. I mean um
[84:10] and and I mean there have all sorts of
[84:11] pretextes but these seven will agree at
[84:15] some point to burst the bubble and it
[84:17] will be collusion and they are actually
[84:21] already if you just watch the news okay
[84:24] so many news articles about this
[84:26] bubble's going to burst this bubble's
[84:27] going to burst right they're already lay
[84:29] laying the uh groundwork it's it's
[84:31] predictive programming that's what it is
[84:34] >> uh yes
[84:34] >> yeah uh my question is like what are
[84:37] they gaining by letting continue to go
[84:39] on. I don't get why they're not just
[84:42] bursting. You say that like they have to
[84:44] time it right. Like what are they
[84:45] gaining by letting it continue on?
[84:48] >> Um so first of all, you just let it go
[84:52] on because it's a path of least
[84:53] resistance. Okay, that's number one.
[84:56] Number two is um
[85:00] they can always control the time it
[85:04] collapses. And when when when they time
[85:06] to collapse, what what what they can do
[85:08] then is short the market to maximize
[85:11] their gain. So um people always pick the
[85:16] path of least resistance. If you don't
[85:17] have to pop the bubble, you don't you
[85:19] don't you don't want to pop the bubble.
[85:20] But if you're forced to pop the bubble,
[85:21] then then you want to pop it in a way
[85:22] that that maxim maximize your gain.
[85:25] >> Okay. Uh yes.
[85:27] >> How can people in the west create an
[85:29] alternative to capitalism and modern
[85:31] modernity? And if wealth isn't [snorts]
[85:33] capital, what is real wealth?
[85:35] >> Um, well, first of all, real wealth is
[85:37] always your imagination, okay? Your
[85:39] attention. Uh, that's why these social
[85:42] media companies
[85:44] let you use your service for free. You
[85:47] think it's free, but it's not because
[85:49] you're paying attention to these things.
[85:51] They're capturing your attention, and
[85:52] that's what they want, right? that's
[85:55] that's they're absorbing your your
[85:56] wealth and that's why these um these
[85:59] companies are so valuable uh because
[86:01] you're able to control your your your
[86:03] your attention. And so the alternative
[86:07] is for you to reclaim your attention and
[86:10] this this can mean reading books but it
[86:12] really means to f you focus more on
[86:15] human relations. you focus on being
[86:18] kind, open, and generous with the people
[86:19] people around you on like, you know,
[86:21] getting to know your uh neighbors. I was
[86:24] at the Pacific Palace in LA. It was the
[86:26] most ridiculous ridiculous cuz they live
[86:28] they live in like these $20 million to
[86:30] $200 million mansions and they don't
[86:32] even know their neighbors. I I was
[86:34] talking to my friend. He's like, "Oh
[86:36] yeah, Stephen Spielberg lives down the
[86:37] street." Like, "Well, are you guys
[86:38] friends?" Like, "No, I never I never met
[86:40] the guy." Like, they live like three
[86:42] houses down. I never met the guy. Oh,
[86:44] and um Adam Sandler. Yeah, he lives he's
[86:47] he's my next door neighbor. Never met
[86:48] the guy. Never seen the guy. It's so
[86:50] weird.
[86:52] Yeah. Anyway. Yeah.
[86:54] >> Uh,
[86:55] >> next question.
[86:57] >> Yeah.
[86:58] >> US and China are declining empires.
[87:05] >> Who's rising?
[87:06] >> Um, I think Israel is rising. I think
[87:10] Japan is rising.
[87:12] I think Poland could be rising. Um I
[87:16] think North Korea is rising, Iran could
[87:18] be rising.
[87:20] Um but places that are outside the
[87:23] capital system will rise because they
[87:26] have they have um untapped potential.
[87:30] Places that are over capitalistic are
[87:32] just exhausted. Okay. All right. So
[87:35] sorry, sorry guys. Uh we we'll continue
[87:37] the questions and we have lots of time
[87:39] for for questions. Okay.
[87:41] >> Okay. What is your perspective on the
[87:42] apparent contradiction between JD Vans's
[87:45] isolationism and Trump's imperial
[87:48] ambitions? Do you see one faction of the
[87:50] Republican party winning in the end?
[87:55] I actually um don't see it as a battle
[88:00] between JD Vance and Donald Trump. I see
[88:04] Donald Trump as trying to navigate
[88:06] opposing factions, right? That's why JD
[88:08] Vance is still around because JD Vance
[88:10] works for Donald Trump, right? It was
[88:11] Donald Trump who picked VJ Vance and
[88:14] it's Donald Trump encouraging Donald J
[88:17] to write a book and go go on on his book
[88:18] tour, right? JD Vance has been on on a
[88:20] lot of um podcasts and honestly I think
[88:24] how politics works is if JD Vance were
[88:27] really against Trump would have you know
[88:31] you know I mean like there are lots of
[88:32] things Trump Trump could could
[88:35] have done but I but I think you know
[88:37] Trump is a sort of person who tries to
[88:39] maintain as many options as possible and
[88:42] JD Vance is maintaining an option for
[88:44] him.
[88:45] >> Okay. guidance on where to build a
[88:47] family and home given the stage
[88:49] capitalism of western nations are at and
[88:52] the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
[88:55] >> I think that e if you have a family uh
[89:00] God will protect you anywhere. I I think
[89:03] you know rather than focus on like where
[89:06] should my family be focus first of all
[89:07] on having a family I mean you know but
[89:11] also like you know just focus on loving
[89:14] your your your children and and then God
[89:17] will will take care of the rest.
[89:19] >> Yeah.
[89:20] >> Okay. Where do you think the US China
[89:22] relationship is actually heading over
[89:23] the next 10 to 20 years? Is some form of
[89:26] long-term coexistence realistic?
[89:30] I think um China and United States are
[89:33] not natural enemies. I think both United
[89:36] States and China are interested in
[89:38] maintaining the current global uh order
[89:42] uh especially China because China is
[89:44] very export uh orientated. So China
[89:48] would like as much as possible to come
[89:50] to a dante with the United States. The
[89:54] problem is the United States internal
[89:56] politics makes US foreign policy very
[89:59] erratic. But I I think that um um
[90:04] President Cing's visit next month, he's
[90:06] coming here uh to United States on
[90:08] September 24th. That will be a very good
[90:11] bell weather of of where things will
[90:13] will be headed. I think I think there'll
[90:15] be a compromise of some sorts. I think
[90:17] that things will turn around for um for
[90:21] US China relations. Okay. So, so we
[90:23] we'll finish these questions and then
[90:24] we'll open up. Okay.
[90:26] >> Okay. As AI gets better, more of the
[90:28] things we consider human intellectual
[90:30] work, uh, how do you think it will
[90:33] change our sense of purpose and what we
[90:34] value as a society?
[90:37] So,
[90:39] um, I think AI is a dead end. I I I
[90:43] think there's a limit to um, AI and the
[90:46] reason why is
[90:48] AI is completely dependent on the global
[90:50] supply chain, right? So, you'd be able
[90:52] to access rare earths, um, lithium,
[90:58] um, silver really cheaply from around
[91:00] the globe. But if these supply chains
[91:02] are breaking down, then it's very hard
[91:06] to take AI to the next level. Um, and
[91:08] you ask yourself, in a time of
[91:13] um, global
[91:15] disruption, is AI really the best place
[91:17] to uh, invest your your money? Um, so I
[91:21] think that that we've basically reached
[91:23] the peak of of AI and I'm not very
[91:28] optimistic about where where AI will
[91:30] will take us.
[91:32] >> Okay. If you could redesign high school
[91:33] education from scratch, what three
[91:35] changes would be best for preparing
[91:37] students for the next 20 years?
[91:39] >> Um, so I would say the major problem
[91:42] with high school education is it's
[91:45] fundamental about indoctrination.
[91:47] Um, and it it's trying to indoctrinate
[91:49] students in a very materialistic
[91:51] worldview.
[91:53] And I think that if you really want
[91:55] students to be engaged, if you really
[91:56] want students to ask good questions, to
[91:59] really want to learn, you need to teach
[92:01] them the occult. You need to teach them
[92:03] like um things like the Cabala,
[92:06] you need to focus on the great books,
[92:08] Homer, Dante, and you need to make
[92:11] school relevant, right? So you need to
[92:13] have school needs to be a place where
[92:15] students can learn about the world uh as
[92:18] opposed to be to be separate from the
[92:20] world.
[92:22] >> You mentioned that we imagine reality.
[92:24] How can we determine that this
[92:26] imagination is sourced from God or
[92:28] Satan? In other words, how can we trust
[92:29] our imagination?
[92:32] Um I mean
[92:36] I think
[92:38] that the imagination can only come from
[92:40] the monad.
[92:42] Okay. Uh I think it's impossible
[92:46] to
[92:48] um be imaginative in an evil way. And
[92:52] you know personally Shelley talks about
[92:53] this you know poetry if you're a poet
[92:56] okay you're you're you're you're not
[92:58] being imaginative you're being divinely
[93:00] inspired. Right. So if it's a great
[93:04] piece of literature, if it's really
[93:06] beautiful, it comes from the monad. It's
[93:09] it's an act of of imagination. And you
[93:12] could also say s doesn't really exist.
[93:14] Like what is Satan? I mean um um in my
[93:18] in my own conception of the universe,
[93:20] only the monad exist. And evil is
[93:24] something that we conceptualize to
[93:26] explain the world we we live in. But
[93:30] um you know Donna would say the
[93:33] fundamental uh principle of the universe
[93:36] is free will
[93:38] and um if and we're imaginative real
[93:43] imagin imagination comes from a place of
[93:46] love. So it's almost impossible to be
[93:49] imaginative for like evil purposes.
[93:53] Okay. Um, what do you think the role of
[93:56] an artist is during this time?
[93:59] >> The role of an artist is to be a
[94:00] prophet, right? The role of an artist is
[94:03] to reveal
[94:06] the universe, reveal the truth, and to
[94:08] give hope to to people to um explain
[94:13] what's going on, but also to show new
[94:15] possibilities um to to be a prophet. I I
[94:18] think I think historically all artists
[94:20] were considered profits uh of some sort.
[94:24] >> Now they're just in uh Brooklyn and
[94:27] [laughter]
[94:27] drinking like $10 matchas. Anyways, um
[94:30] >> okay.
[94:32] >> Yeah.
[94:32] >> Uh [clears throat] what positive things
[94:34] can you say about this present time?
[94:37] >> That's the last question. I I think this
[94:39] is a very positive time because what's
[94:42] happening in the world is forcing us to
[94:45] think deeply about who we are and what
[94:48] we want, right? That's why we're all
[94:49] here tonight. So, I think like 10 years
[94:52] ago, my lectures, people were like,
[94:54] "This guy's insane and like let's just
[94:57] ignore him because he's saying bad
[94:59] things and it's not comfortable like
[95:02] listening to him, right?" But now
[95:05] um you're seeking answers. And by
[95:08] seeking answers, by seeking uh the
[95:10] truth, you're actually activating your
[95:13] the humanity in in you. Okay? Your soul,
[95:16] the soul in you, the spark in you that
[95:19] was dormant for such a long time because
[95:21] things are so comfortable, it's now
[95:24] begging for answers. And so, so, so I
[95:27] think like this may lead to um a
[95:31] spiritual awakening.
[95:33] um and an evolution of of of humanity.
[95:37] But this is something that is not
[95:39] obvious at some point because this is
[95:41] something that we have to seek together
[95:42] and together we will build the the
[95:45] solution.
[95:46] >> Okay.
[95:46] >> Awesome. Thank you. Those are all the
[95:48] questions. So we'll open it up to
[95:50] >> Yeah. Maybe we can pass pass the mic mic
[95:51] around. So I I so so we we can hear hear
[95:54] the questions in in the video.
[95:56] >> Somebody have a question.
[95:59] >> Okay.
[95:59] >> Just you want to choose or
[96:01] >> Yeah. Let's
[96:04] let's just pass it around. Okay. Yeah.
[96:06] So
[96:08] >> um thank you so much for giving this
[96:09] lecture. So you constantly return to
[96:11] Dante um as kind of the paradmatic uh
[96:15] great books um author who kind of
[96:18] redefined human experience and provided
[96:20] a way to view reality in a positive way.
[96:22] Are there any other great books um
[96:24] especially written among uh like
[96:27] following modernity? I'm thinking of
[96:28] like Ulyses or like In Search of Lost
[96:30] Time or books even written now that you
[96:32] see as providing kind of instruction
[96:35] manuals for our imagination to navigate
[96:37] the complexities of modern life.
[96:39] >> Yeah, that's a great question. Um, so I
[96:43] really like the Russian novelist. So
[96:45] Dosyki and Toy Story and Karina I think
[96:49] is really the best novel ever written.
[96:51] And then Karinina and then Dosyki is
[96:55] always wonderful. K punishment. Uh the
[96:57] brothers uh crash mazov. Um but really
[97:04] um
[97:05] uh modern writers
[97:08] um
[97:10] yeah so
[97:12] I I really like what what's his name?
[97:17] Who who wrote um Cathedral? Cathedral.
[97:20] Raymond Carver. Is that his name?
[97:22] >> Yeah.
[97:22] >> Yeah. I like Raymond Carver a lot. Um, I
[97:25] think that his stories just force you to
[97:27] think very deeply and they um they're
[97:31] very emotional. So I I I would recommend
[97:33] Raymond Raymond Carver Cathedral. Yeah.
[97:37] Okay. Hey, professor. Um, so your
[97:40] argument is that um Israel is the next
[97:44] um you know big world power, money's
[97:46] flowing to Israel etc. Um
[97:50] and you've you've already said that
[97:51] Israel has a high birth rate, you know,
[97:53] three um children per woman. Um but the
[97:58] demographic of Israel going forward,
[98:00] most Brits are towards the Hazidic Jews
[98:03] or the Palestinian Israelis, the Arab
[98:05] Israelis, right?
[98:06] >> So that will lead to a very different
[98:09] Israel 50 years or 30 years from now.
[98:12] >> Yeah.
[98:12] >> So, you know, does that not change your
[98:15] back Judeica argument essentially?
[98:18] Right. So, um, Israel, the the Israel,
[98:23] Israelis do not want Pax Judeica.
[98:26] Okay. Israel, the Israelis are fairly
[98:29] happy with the way things are as they
[98:32] are. And unfortunately, there are some
[98:35] misanic Jews. Um, mainly Habalat Luvich.
[98:39] I'm not sure if you guys know who what
[98:40] is it, but but but like they're trying
[98:42] to usher in the end times and
[98:46] um they're out of control. So what's
[98:48] been happening is there sort of internal
[98:51] contradiction.
[98:52] It's being externalized, right? So you
[98:55] guys may know like a lot of Israelis are
[98:57] buying a property in the uh
[99:00] Mediterranean in Greece and Cyprus.
[99:01] They're moving to Argentina. The reason
[99:03] why is they don't like the meic mess,
[99:07] right? Right? So rather than fight them,
[99:09] which would lead to civil war, there's
[99:10] like screw this, we'll we'll just move
[99:12] elsewhere, right? So they're moving to
[99:14] Argentina, they're moving to the med the
[99:16] Mediterranean,
[99:18] uh they're moving to Australia, um these
[99:21] places. But what this means is that if
[99:23] these people are leaving, okay, people
[99:25] from Tel Aviv are leaving, that means
[99:26] that Israel becomes even more messianic,
[99:30] right? The settlers become have have
[99:32] even more power. And so I see Israel
[99:35] trans transforming from a democracy to a
[99:37] theocracy in the next few years. I think
[99:40] this uh election October uh will be very
[99:43] telling you and it'll be very um uh
[99:47] interesting to see what happens. But but
[99:48] but the idea of is as a democracy can't
[99:52] last. Okay. For p Judea
[99:56] to take shape, what has to happen is you
[99:59] have to have a priest class, the
[100:00] theocracy and you bring in like millions
[100:03] of immigrants from India uh and they
[100:05] become basically your uh slave class and
[100:08] and and and that and that's what they
[100:10] want to and that's what they want to
[100:12] create.
[100:13] >> Is that what um transnational capital
[100:15] wants as well? they want in Israel with
[100:17] like a police class and um and a peasant
[100:21] class, I guess.
[100:22] >> Yeah. Because that's how how I make the
[100:24] most money, right? So I So like Libya is
[100:28] destroyed, Syria's destroyed, Iraq's
[100:30] destroyed, uh the GCC will be destroyed
[100:33] very very quickly, right? So now I
[100:35] repopulated with like Indians because
[100:37] like India uh first of all they're they
[100:40] have a booming population of young
[100:42] people who are just going to revolt if
[100:44] you just let them stay in the country
[100:45] right so you need to remove them um and
[100:48] send them elsewhere also Hindua is is a
[100:51] growing uh ideology in India which calls
[100:55] for Indian Zionism and so there's a lot
[100:58] of alignment between India and Israel in
[101:01] fact there's only four country four
[101:03] countries in the world where Israel has
[101:05] a net uh favor favorability rating.
[101:08] Okay. And one of them actually is India.
[101:10] The I think the other are like Ghana and
[101:12] Nigeria. Okay. So yeah. Right.
[101:17] Thank you for your lecture. I'm
[101:19] interested to learn more about how
[101:20] Kabala was co-opted by the West because
[101:23] from my understanding it was developed
[101:25] in Anduji Islamic Spain and then spread
[101:28] out into Christian Europe. Um, and now
[101:31] it's influencing the occult and secret
[101:33] societies. So, how did kabala become
[101:38] part of Christian Zionism? And what
[101:39] other occult strains do you think should
[101:42] be studied to both understand the world
[101:44] and as an alternative to create
[101:46] something new?
[101:47] >> Okay. So, Cabala is interesting because
[101:50] what what Cabala is doing really, if you
[101:52] think about it, it's taking like
[101:54] Egyptian hermeticism and Nazism and
[101:56] applying to the Bible. Okay. So um what
[102:01] makes a cabala distinct from say Nazism
[102:04] and hermetism is [snorts]
[102:07] um and neoplatanism
[102:10] is
[102:11] that um
[102:14] for them the mind of God is not really
[102:18] decipherable. You can't really
[102:19] understand the mind of God. But for
[102:22] Cabalis, they're like, well, the Bible
[102:26] is the word of God,
[102:30] right? And the Bible is comprised of
[102:34] Hebrew alphabet. Then we can imagine
[102:37] that the Hebrew alphabet and numbers,
[102:39] numerology are the fundamental
[102:44] >> um tools that God uses to create the
[102:46] universe. So if we are able to interpret
[102:50] the Hebrew alphabet and then numer
[102:52] numerology in a certain way then we're
[102:54] able to construct reconstruct the very
[102:58] fabric of the universe. Okay that's what
[103:00] what makes kabala distinct from from
[103:02] other things and you think about it
[103:03] that's a really powerful way of
[103:05] understanding the universe because if
[103:07] you can actually figure out numerology
[103:10] and the Hebrew alphabet then you can
[103:12] actually predict the future. Um and
[103:15] that's why the cabala is so enticing for
[103:20] for people and there are practices of
[103:22] cabala who are able able to predict the
[103:26] um the future um you look at habalich
[103:31] and habalich I'm not sure if you guys
[103:33] know about the history of habalich but
[103:35] it was founded in um modern day Russia
[103:38] and for most of its history was
[103:41] persecuted
[103:42] by uh the first the Russian SAR and then
[103:46] the Soviets. Um and it was it it should
[103:50] have been extinct many many decades ago.
[103:53] It's a very small movement and now it's
[103:56] everywhere. Okay, it's in Ukraine. It's
[104:00] very close to Putin. It's very close to
[104:01] Trump. Uh Jav Malay in Argentina. He
[104:05] he's actually a Habat Lubich member.
[104:07] Okay. So from their perspective, it's a
[104:10] miracle. Okay. It's the vine how they
[104:13] were able to survive
[104:15] um such persecution and now grow and
[104:18] become so so powerful and they they
[104:20] believe they did so because of their
[104:22] understanding of the cabala and but
[104:24] their understanding of the cabala is
[104:25] also me messianic and they call for uh
[104:29] the end times. Okay. And they're so
[104:32] energized. I mean um I mean the history
[104:36] of the Cabala sorry the history of
[104:39] Kabalich it is so
[104:42] uh mesmerizing if you actually look deep
[104:44] go deep into it. Okay so but I I I'll
[104:46] tell you one story. Have you guys ever
[104:49] asked yourself how Mark Zuckerberg
[104:52] became a billionaire?
[104:54] Um because Facebook it's not it's not a
[104:57] original idea. there are lots of like
[104:58] Facebook um um like concepts around that
[105:04] that at the time. What what did Facebook
[105:06] come to dominate dominate social media?
[105:09] And the answer is
[105:11] [snorts] um Mark Zuckerberg
[105:15] was able to take Harvard intellectual
[105:18] property because Facebook is Harvard
[105:21] intellectual property and he was able to
[105:24] ignore Harvard privacy rules, right?
[105:28] Because like Facebook is like you
[105:30] shouldn't be able to access that
[105:31] person's face and like address and like
[105:35] personal details, but they were able to
[105:37] do so. So where did Mark Zuckerberg get
[105:40] this power? Okay. Well, when Mark
[105:44] Zuckerberg was at Harvard, he was part
[105:46] of Harvard Habad, which is the campus
[105:50] offshoot of Habadich.
[105:53] He was a freshman when he joined Harvard
[105:56] Habad.
[105:58] The two seniors who were part of Harvard
[106:01] Habad at the time were Natalie Portman
[106:03] and Jared Kushner.
[106:04] >> Wow.
[106:05] >> The faculty advisor
[106:07] >> was Excuse me.
[106:08] >> You said Natalie Forman.
[106:09] >> Natalie Portman. Yeah.
[106:12] >> You didn't know that? Natalie Portman
[106:13] and Jush go way back. Anyway,
[106:17] >> um the faculty advisor was Alan Duritz.
[106:22] >> The patron of Harvard Habad was Larry
[106:24] Summers.
[106:27] >> Okay. Um so you're like, "Wait a minute.
[106:29] What's going on here?" Well, okay.
[106:32] Here's another really interesting story
[106:34] you can just Google. Okay. But
[106:37] uh Mark Zuckerberg said that his parents
[106:40] had three daughters before they had him.
[106:42] They really really wanted wanted a son.
[106:45] So what what what do they do? They went
[106:47] for to ask for a blessing from
[106:48] Rebeersonen who was head of Havat
[106:50] Lubovich.
[106:52] Okay. And um Rebeersonen says yes I will
[106:58] bless you. And then they had Marcus
[106:59] Zuckerberg. You think okay that's a nice
[107:01] story but like you you read the Bible
[107:03] it's not a nice story. is actually a
[107:05] very uh messianic story because who in
[107:08] the Bible couldn't have children and
[107:11] then asked for God for a blessing and
[107:14] then had had a had a child? Well, it was
[107:16] Abraham and Sarah who had Isaac, right?
[107:20] And then Abraham sacrificed Isaac to to
[107:22] God. But it was it was also um the
[107:25] prophet Samuel
[107:27] u Samuel's parents um who couldn't
[107:30] conceive. So they begged God and said
[107:32] look look if you give us a child we will
[107:34] make this child your servant and then uh
[107:38] they conceived and had Samuel and then
[107:40] Samuel um became the prophet who
[107:42] anointed King David. Okay. So if you
[107:45] know the Bible you know like when Mark
[107:46] Zuckerberg tells his story it's coded
[107:48] language. It means he's a servant of
[107:50] God. All right. If you look at what he's
[107:53] doing like creating the metaverse like
[107:54] why would you do that right? You're
[107:57] okay. So there are a lot of really
[108:01] strange things about Facebook and Mark
[108:03] Zuckerberg and you can't explain it just
[108:05] using venture capital's sense. For
[108:07] example, why is Mark Zuckerberg the he
[108:12] has complete control over the company?
[108:16] Why as a venture capitalist would you
[108:17] allow a 19-year-old 20-year-old to have
[108:20] complete control over Facebook? You guys
[108:22] know this, right? He he doesn't have
[108:24] majority equity, but he has majority
[108:26] control. He has he has he controls he
[108:29] has certain shares that gives him total
[108:31] control of Facebook like why would you
[108:33] why would you allow that to happen right
[108:35] so there's a lot of strange things
[108:37] behind Facebook okay now why do I say
[108:40] this because in 2016 what happened the
[108:43] Cambridge an analytical scandal happened
[108:45] right
[108:48] what's Cambridge analytical scandal
[108:50] basically this company was able to
[108:52] access 50 million
[108:54] Facebook users personal data and then
[108:57] create microargeting that allowed um the
[109:03] Trump team to sway the election in the
[109:05] favor, right? You you you guys know
[109:06] this, right? Okay. Head of Facebook was
[109:11] Mark Zuckerberg. Who was head of the
[109:13] Trump social media team responsible for
[109:15] for this microargeting?
[109:17] >> You guys know
[109:18] >> Kushner.
[109:19] >> Jared Kushner.
[109:21] >> Okay. Right. So, you're like, "Wait a
[109:23] minute here. what's going on, right? But
[109:27] but you just kind of connect the dots,
[109:28] you you get a really interesting story.
[109:31] >> All right.
[109:32] >> Did you read the article yesterday about
[109:35] Amade's wife, CEO of Antropic? His wife
[109:39] tried to raise money from Jeffrey
[109:40] Epstein for a female site and [snorts]
[109:44] she dated CEO. It's a Wall Street.
[109:48] >> Yeah. It's a very small circle of
[109:49] people, right? It's a very small circle
[109:51] of people. you're always able to connect
[109:53] these people to together. Um Jeffrey
[109:57] Epstein is another um person who is
[110:00] probably also alive about Lubovich. All
[110:03] right.
[110:04] >> I just have a really quick followup. You
[110:06] still recommend children and young
[110:08] people to study the occult and great
[110:09] books and you talk about the importance
[110:11] of artists as profits. So how do you
[110:13] think young people can use these ideas
[110:16] that philosophers and intellectuals,
[110:19] entrepreneurs have used to spread ideas
[110:21] for good and to use the occult and
[110:23] philosophy to create new creative ideas.
[110:26] >> Okay. So
[110:28] um I think people often look to me for
[110:32] ideas and and but that's not how these
[110:36] things work. Once you connect back to
[110:39] the monad, the monad will will show you
[110:42] the path forward because we're here for
[110:46] our own individual experience, right? We
[110:49] all came here for a purpose and what's
[110:51] important is to know our purpose,
[110:54] discover our tilos and also to
[110:56] constantly connect to the monad to seek
[110:59] guidance. So um my advice is to open
[111:03] yourself up to the monad to the
[111:06] universal consciousness and that will
[111:08] show you the path.
[111:10] >> Looking to me uh won't solve anything.
[111:13] Okay.
[111:13] >> Yeah.
[111:13] >> All right. U
[111:15] keep on passing it. Yep.
[111:18] >> I had a different question but I think I
[111:20] have a better one.
[111:21] >> Okay.
[111:21] >> When you connect to the monad, what is
[111:23] your path?
[111:25] >> What is my path?
[111:26] >> Yeah.
[111:27] >> My path is to be a teacher, right? I
[111:29] mean like um from my life I asked myself
[111:33] what are things that I do that are
[111:36] smooth? What are things that I do which
[111:40] is uh not smooth? If it's smooth it
[111:43] means I'm probably following the path
[111:45] the more wants for me. If it's if it's
[111:47] not going well then it's probably not
[111:49] the path I I I want. So um so what what
[111:55] what I've learned is to trust the
[111:57] universe more. Right. Right? I'm in New
[111:59] York City because someone wants me here,
[112:01] right? Uh and there's actually a
[112:03] possibility I didn't get in New York
[112:04] City because I'm I'm talking with my son
[112:07] and I didn't know this, but United
[112:09] States you need a travel letter to
[112:11] travel. um and I didn't have a travel
[112:13] letter but um and and there's a real
[112:17] fear that I missed my flight and but um
[112:21] and I think before maybe five five five
[112:23] years ago I I would have like you know
[112:25] been really anxious but um but I told
[112:29] myself okay if I I get if I get in the
[112:31] United States it's because someone that
[112:33] wants me here if I don't get in it's
[112:34] because the one that doesn't want me
[112:36] here so so so I'm trusting the universe
[112:38] more right
[112:40] >> um one more different question is I
[112:42] don't know if you've moved out of China
[112:43] yet, but you had mentioned that once you
[112:45] do, you may be able to share more about
[112:47] like what you're seeing in there. Um I
[112:49] don't know if you're able to share, you
[112:51] know, what you're seeing on the ground
[112:52] in China.
[112:54] >> Yeah. Um I just think that um the
[112:59] situation in China it's hopeless because
[113:02] you have this leadership in place that
[113:06] is very arrogant, very indifferent
[113:10] and just very stubborn. Uh and the
[113:14] people are so materialistic.
[113:18] um you know if you know it's you can't
[113:21] connect back to the monad if you don't
[113:22] actually believe in the monad and and I
[113:24] I think that in the future uh because of
[113:28] all these cal calamities those who are
[113:31] spiritual in nature will be most able to
[113:34] survive the coming crisis and the
[113:37] Chinese people are not at all spiritual
[113:39] uh the Japanese are uh but the Chinese
[113:41] are not
[113:45] >> can I ask question Um what first
[113:48] question can you give us a book list? Uh
[113:51] not now but maybe later. I tried to
[113:54] resist question on substack but uh I
[113:56] haven't I know you have great books that
[113:59] you talked about but do you have a can
[114:01] you can you give us a more a bigger a
[114:04] more comprehensive book list later?
[114:07] >> Yeah. Yeah. I mean like like like I've
[114:09] taught the great books before. Um but I
[114:12] would say the most important thing is
[114:13] just to start reading books you enjoy
[114:15] reading. Um, and that doesn't
[114:18] necessarily mean you have to read the
[114:20] great books, but it just means like you
[114:21] you have to get in the process of like
[114:22] reading every day for an hour.
[114:25] >> Yeah, I am doing that. But I still look
[114:27] forward to your book list.
[114:29] >> I started the the war on uh panoponia.
[114:33] That is difficult word for me.
[114:35] >> I mean like like I I I highly recommend
[114:38] the Russian novelist.
[114:39] >> So um Toy Stoy and Dosski.
[114:42] >> I have read uh read some. Okay. Can I
[114:44] ask you another question? Can I
[114:46] >> Okay.
[114:46] >> Um said that China is going to close up
[114:50] um repeat the history.
[114:51] >> It's going to close its borders. Yeah.
[114:53] >> Um
[114:58] uh but what will happen to China after
[115:01] she is he's 74 years old I believe. What
[115:06] will happen after him?
[115:08] >> Cuz after Ma died, sorry after M died
[115:11] things changed. So, so one strange thing
[115:14] that I don't think like people
[115:16] appreciate is how long these guys can
[115:18] live for.
[115:20] >> All right, like Trump is 80, right? And
[115:22] like I was talking to some friends um uh
[115:26] in Los Angeles and they're convinced
[115:28] like he can't he cannot finish his term,
[115:32] you know, he's going to die in office or
[115:34] he was forced to resign. And like
[115:38] these guys, they're like they're there.
[115:42] They they're where they are because they
[115:43] have this steel determination to they
[115:47] love power. And so you put them put them
[115:48] in position of power, they can go they
[115:50] can live for a long long time, right? So
[115:54] look at someone like Biden who was I
[115:56] mean like the guy was scenile. I mean
[115:58] like the guy brain did not function but
[116:00] he was able to like finish his term,
[116:03] right? I mean like like like like like
[116:04] in the year 2020
[116:07] um um and we we we we had a bet are you
[116:12] is Biden able to finish his term given
[116:14] his medical ailments? And and I think
[116:16] most people would be like no he won't be
[116:17] able to finish his term and come out
[116:18] like Harris will will will be the first
[116:21] you know female president of the United
[116:22] States. I I think most people would
[116:24] would say that and people who know right
[116:27] people who knew his predicament would
[116:29] say that. Um, but he finished his term.
[116:33] So, I think you I I think it's hard to
[116:35] appreciate how once you once you're in
[116:37] that position, whether you're be Putin
[116:39] or C or Trump, you never want to let go.
[116:42] You don't you want to cling on until
[116:45] they snatch it from you.
[116:46] >> But but they will die eventually.
[116:49] >> Says who? How do you know?
[116:54] >> How do you know that they'll die?
[116:56] >> Nobody has lived forever.
[116:58] >> How do you know that?
[117:00] You mean the latest technology will make
[117:02] that live forever?
[117:06] >> Um, I think modern technology will
[117:09] surprise you. I I I think I think
[117:11] nowadays with the idea of like blood
[117:13] transfusion and organ transplants and
[117:15] remember the they have they have like
[117:16] the access to the most advanced
[117:19] technology in the world.
[117:25] >> Do you see any
[117:28] dies?
[117:29] >> [snorts]
[117:29] >> I I I I didn't say they will never die,
[117:32] but I'm just saying like we don't know
[117:33] when they will die. And I think they
[117:36] will live a lot longer than you assume
[117:37] they will live. Okay. But but but but
[117:40] we'll continue. Yes.
[117:41] >> Uh you use the word monad and god a lot.
[117:44] What makes you believe in [snorts] do
[117:47] you believe in god a god some or do you
[117:50] use like god and monad interchangeably
[117:52] and and I guess what what makes you
[117:54] believe?
[117:54] >> Yeah. I mean like so for me why I like
[117:57] the idea of the monad is it explains a
[118:00] lot of issues that I that I couldn't
[118:02] explain before. So for example human
[118:04] consciousness is something that I could
[118:06] never explain before. Right? And I I I I
[118:08] did a lot of research in neuroscience. I
[118:10] know about how memory forms and how the
[118:11] brain works and the synats and all that
[118:13] but it was never really fulfilling. It
[118:16] didn't really explain to me what was
[118:18] going on. And now the monad idea like
[118:21] our consciousness is um scattered across
[118:25] different dimensions and um our ideas
[118:29] our intuition comes to us from the monad
[118:32] that I think makes a lot more sense than
[118:35] uh the traditional neuroscience
[118:37] materialistic perspective. Okay. So, so,
[118:39] so, so for me, it's just satisfying to
[118:41] think that there's a monad. Uh, and and
[118:45] so I I I just went through life not
[118:47] being able to answer a lot of questions
[118:49] and the monad helps me answer all the
[118:52] questions and emotionally in my heart, I
[118:55] I believe it's right. Right. Because at
[118:58] the end of the day, you can only trust
[118:59] your your heart. You you you can only
[119:01] trust yourself. And anyone who tells you
[119:04] not to trust yourself, trust the
[119:05] science. Well, that that person is
[119:08] probably Tony Fy, right? And like you
[119:10] shouldn't trust the guy.
[119:11] >> Yeah.
[119:13] >> Uh
[119:14] yeah.
[119:15] >> Yeah. Okay.
[119:18] Lot lots of questions at the back. Okay.
[119:20] We we'll just pass it pass it around.
[119:22] Okay.
[119:25] >> Uh thank you, professor, for the
[119:27] lecture. Um, so across multiple podcasts
[119:30] and in this lecture too, you kind of
[119:32] alluded to like a bronze age type
[119:36] collapse in the next 50 years.
[119:38] >> Yeah. Um, and what really kind of like
[119:42] like especially if reality kind of plays
[119:45] according to the model that you built
[119:47] out. Um, you use the term bronze age
[119:51] collapse instead of something like when
[119:54] like there have been great dips in
[119:56] history throughout history like the
[119:57] Great Depression or after World War II.
[120:00] But you kind of like comparing the next
[120:02] 50 years to the bronze age collapse that
[120:05] ushered like around half a millennia of
[120:07] like dark ages. Like first of all,
[120:11] what's the probability in your honest
[120:13] opinion of that actually happening? And
[120:15] number two, like what will actually
[120:17] happen that you compare it to the Bronze
[120:19] Age collapse and not to something like
[120:21] the Great Depression or like after World
[120:23] War II?
[120:24] >> Yeah. So I think like the um my logic is
[120:27] very simple. Right now there are 8
[120:29] billion people in the world and these 8
[120:32] billion people they all want to live
[120:35] right they all want to survive the
[120:37] problem is
[120:39] like we are able to support 8 billion
[120:41] people because of access to cheap energy
[120:43] mainly from the the Middle East okay um
[120:48] if you remove the GCC from the equation
[120:50] like let let's pretend the GC GC doesn't
[120:52] even exist well you would you would lose
[120:56] access to fertilizer uh not all
[120:58] fertilizer but a lot of fertilizer you
[121:00] lose access to cheap energy
[121:03] then there's a possibility
[121:06] um of famine in Africa uh of social uh
[121:11] revolution throughout Europe okay so
[121:14] what people don't appreciate about the
[121:16] Bronze Age collapse is things were
[121:19] perfectly normal until they weren't okay
[121:23] um if you live during the Bronze Age you
[121:25] would think wow we live in a perfect
[121:26] world because everything is
[121:27] interconnected and you assume that this
[121:30] interconnection
[121:31] leads to resilience. It leads to
[121:34] dexterity but it's the opposite. It
[121:36] leads actually leads to fragility. Um
[121:39] and so if there's one problem that
[121:41] arises somewhere, it cascades across the
[121:44] entire world. And look you look look
[121:47] again I hate to say this but like you've
[121:49] got 8 billion people and their only
[121:50] resources enough to support two billion
[121:53] people and this includes water and food,
[121:55] right? So what are people going to do?
[121:56] you have kids and you're in Africa and
[121:59] like there's not enough food and water.
[122:01] What do you do? Well, you migrate,
[122:02] right? You migrate. Uh you join bands of
[122:05] pirates, bandits because that's the best
[122:09] way to survive. Then you become an army,
[122:12] right? Then you try to overwhelm the
[122:14] defense of Europe which leads to wars.
[122:16] That's what hap this is what happened
[122:17] during the Bronze Age. The migration is
[122:19] going to be a huge problem in this world
[122:22] over the next 10 years because there's
[122:24] not enough food to feed people. Famine
[122:27] is going to be a huge issue and this
[122:29] this will lead to war. This is not World
[122:32] War II. This is a breakdown of
[122:34] civilization.
[122:36] Um and you know when this happens when
[122:38] people don't have enough to eat
[122:41] human decency goes out the window. Okay?
[122:44] Like I don't care that you're a human
[122:46] being. You have food. You have water and
[122:48] I need it from you so I'm going to kill
[122:50] you. It's either it's either you it's a
[122:52] doggy dog, right?
[122:56] >> Do you think that's engineered too?
[122:58] >> Excuse me.
[122:58] >> Do you think that's engineer?
[123:00] >> I think it's a path of least least
[123:02] resistance, right? It's like I don't
[123:04] want it to happen, but like if it
[123:05] happens, I have a bunker in New Zealand.
[123:08] I have a helicopter that can transport
[123:10] transport me to somewhere else. I have
[123:11] this mansion in in the Pacific Palisides
[123:13] and and I can build a fortress. So, it's
[123:16] a path of least least resistance. I I I
[123:18] think these people in charge, the
[123:22] problem is not that they're evil, the
[123:24] problem is like they're just
[123:26] >> Yeah. Yeah.
[123:28] >> Um do you have a vivid picture in your
[123:31] head like how this will look like?
[123:32] Because I uh I remember you talking
[123:35] about it in a podcast where you believe
[123:37] that in the next 50 years like humanity
[123:39] there will be like two sects of
[123:41] humanity. One will believe in AI as a
[123:44] god and the other one will like not
[123:46] reject AI as a god. like is that a part
[123:48] of your uh like model of like how this
[123:52] collapse will look like and like also
[123:54] how would you survive like in a in this
[123:57] like world that you like envision?
[124:00] >> I I I think what's going to happen is
[124:02] just a process of constant change,
[124:04] constant revolution, the breakdown of um
[124:08] social order. And I think that those who
[124:11] will thrive or those who survive are
[124:13] those who are deep deeply spiritual.
[124:15] Those who believe that they're connected
[124:18] to the monad and that they're here for a
[124:21] purpose and and their purpose is often
[124:23] to help others and these people will
[124:25] become leaders where um for and then
[124:29] people will will congregate towards
[124:31] these people and then the monet will
[124:33] show them the path forward. So I can't
[124:36] visualize for you what it will be like
[124:39] because like every year will be
[124:40] different. I mean like imagine just
[124:42] imagine the amount of change we've had
[124:43] these past six months. It's been crazy,
[124:44] right?
[124:46] Um and so the pace of change uh the
[124:50] acceleration is just off the charts. So
[124:52] I can't tell you what the what the world
[124:53] will be like over the next 50 years
[124:55] because every year every year will be
[124:56] different. But I can tell you like to
[125:00] reclaim your spiritual heritage like
[125:02] like like to to remember like you do
[125:04] come from a monad uh that each of us
[125:06] come from a monad but we we but most of
[125:10] us choose to forget that because it's
[125:12] just easier for us.
[125:14] >> Okay.
[125:15] >> Thank you so much.
[125:16] >> Okay.
[125:17] >> Hi professor. I'm just here to wonder.
[125:20] I'm I'm asking if you've currently or
[125:22] previously
[125:25] [sighs]
[125:26] the national draft. You've alluded to it
[125:28] many times. You talked about it a lot. I
[125:30] just don't see how it's feasible. I'm 22
[125:32] years old. I was previously enlisted to
[125:33] go into the Marines before tearing my
[125:35] rotator cuff. I have a lot of friends
[125:36] that are actively in the mil military.
[125:39] You know, there was recently a news
[125:40] story where people are throwing
[125:42] themselves off of ships currently. I
[125:45] mean, I just don't see how it's feasible
[125:46] how a draft could possibly happen.
[125:48] everybody my age is prop is is currently
[125:49] being propagandized to hate Israel, to
[125:51] hate America. How are they going to use
[125:53] us as a tool to work for them?
[125:55] >> Okay, so I think a national draft
[125:57] doesn't necessarily mean going in the
[126:00] army. Okay, but imagine a scenario where
[126:02] okay, you have economic collapse like
[126:04] the the AI bubble collapses, the private
[126:06] credit bubble collapses and a lot of
[126:09] wealth, okay, is just evaporated, right?
[126:13] So young people nowadays think that they
[126:16] have a cushion which is their parents.
[126:17] parent parents have a few million
[126:19] dollars in property and in the stock
[126:22] market and they think like okay well you
[126:23] know like worst case scenario my parents
[126:26] will bail me out and so but like let's
[126:29] imagine a scenario where the stock
[126:31] market collapses
[126:32] the economy is in tatters now people are
[126:35] desperate now you have a great
[126:36] depression scenario right and what's the
[126:38] solution to the great depression
[126:40] basically a national draft right
[126:41] basically jobs for everyone and then and
[126:44] then sending everyone to world war war
[126:46] II and And then World War II happened
[126:48] because of 10 years of like desperation,
[126:50] anxiety, people were happy to go to war,
[126:53] right? So yeah, you're like, right now
[126:55] I'm not I I I I there's no way I go to
[126:58] war, but like five years from now things
[127:00] could be very different.
[127:01] >> On the same platforms that Zuckerberg
[127:03] owns, there's constantly being reels
[127:05] pushed. We're going to be used as drone
[127:06] bait. You know, I I just I don't see I I
[127:08] feel like everybody would rather go to
[127:10] jail than even serve in a nonviolent
[127:12] part of the military. But you're just
[127:14] saying because of that, you know, we're
[127:16] going to be desperate. We'll work for
[127:17] them anyways.
[127:18] >> I I think so. I I I think if if there's
[127:21] a situation where um you either work for
[127:24] the government um in infrastructure
[127:27] spending or what in infrastructure
[127:29] building or whatever, you know, or you
[127:31] know, be homeless while you would work
[127:35] for the government. Um and and that
[127:37] that's that's that's what I think the
[127:38] national draft is. the N national could
[127:41] should be a national works program.
[127:43] >> My last question, 22 years old, I would
[127:46] I I'm inspired by you. I would like to
[127:47] start a family. I see that it is, you
[127:49] know, the greatest means of purpose, but
[127:51] I'm I'm concerned, right, if I get
[127:52] pulled away from, you know, the
[127:54] beginning of my family.
[127:55] >> How how, you know, so
[127:59] I don't have a question, but um
[128:00] >> you know what? That's a great question
[128:02] and I keep on saying this but like
[128:06] like if you just do your purpose the
[128:08] universe will um will pave the way for
[128:12] you. So like when I was like 10 years
[128:15] ago I was unemployed
[128:18] um I have no real job prospects but I
[128:20] felt I fell in love with a woman and as
[128:23] a manifestation expression of our love
[128:25] we had children and you know this was a
[128:27] time when there was no way I could
[128:28] support a child and after we had a a
[128:32] child I wrote a book and this book got
[128:35] me a job and this job uh allowed me to
[128:38] put videos on YouTube and each time we
[128:41] we had a child it seemed like the
[128:42] universe
[128:44] um smile upon us even more. Okay. So,
[128:47] it's an it's it's a act of faith. Having
[128:50] family is an act of faith. And so, like
[128:52] if you just say, well, I mean, like if I
[128:54] do a costbenefit analysis, I should have
[128:56] a family. Um you you get nowhere. But if
[129:00] you're like, you know what, if I have a
[129:01] family, uh if you do that, if you do
[129:04] that, then what happens is like, oh my
[129:06] god, now I must do what is necessary in
[129:09] order to raise a family. Then then you
[129:11] will it then you manifest it and then
[129:13] and then your life becomes different.
[129:16] >> Thank you.
[129:16] >> All right. So So what time is it?
[129:18] >> Oh, it's 7:17.
[129:20] >> Okay. So maybe in another 10 minutes I I
[129:22] need you to ask me really quickly. Okay.
[129:23] All right. Sorry.
[129:26] >> Let's continue. Yes.
[129:28] >> Hi, Professor Jung. Um I was just
[129:30] wondering because you had said that
[129:33] your view of these secret societies is a
[129:35] nonlinear evolution. It's it's a broken
[129:38] chain for secret societies. Yeah.
[129:40] >> Do you
[129:42] seem to share so many common interests
[129:45] since the Elusinian mystery days up
[129:48] until now, do you think that it could be
[129:50] the collective unconscious kind of
[129:52] working through people and wearing the
[129:55] face of these organizations to
[129:57] >> get to some kind of goal and and with
[130:00] that, how do you reconcile negative
[130:02] forces like this in the collective
[130:04] unconscious with your beliefs regarding
[130:05] the monad being all good and whatnot?
[130:08] >> Yeah. Okay. So
[130:11] um there are different theories out
[130:13] there okay and one theory is there are
[130:16] certain individuals
[130:18] whose
[130:20] um whose spiritual practice is so great
[130:23] that they're able to transcend
[130:26] and they're able to embed themselves in
[130:29] the univers universal consciousness and
[130:31] then these people are able to
[130:33] communicate with others and then they're
[130:36] able to incarnate
[130:39] um and influence worldly affairs. Okay.
[130:43] And these people like in the past we've
[130:46] given names to like as like Satan or you
[130:48] know devils or Nephe or whatever. Okay.
[130:52] So and I I think there's a lot of
[130:54] validity to this theory.
[131:00] And um the question then is okay then
[131:04] how how how can we reconcile this with
[131:07] the monad and what Donnie would say is
[131:10] the if the no if the monat truly loves
[131:12] us the monad the monat's gift to us is
[131:16] free will so you can choose to do
[131:18] whatever you want you can choose to
[131:20] create this world that we live in um
[131:23] which is very which is very
[131:25] technologically advanced materialistic
[131:28] but which has led to tremendous human
[131:30] suffering. Okay, we we choose to do this
[131:33] or we can choose to create another
[131:36] world. Okay, but for the imagination to
[131:39] truly be effective, there has to be
[131:41] complete freedom. Um so I think that to
[131:46] say you know these people are evil and
[131:49] they are man manipulating human events
[131:52] for the um for the wrong things. That's
[131:55] how that's not what the monad would
[131:56] would say. The one I would say if these
[131:59] people can choose to do these things,
[132:01] you can choose to do other things as as
[132:05] well. Um, and
[132:08] even though they seem to have all the
[132:10] power, your imagination is a true power.
[132:14] So if you have faith in your
[132:15] imagination, then that will lead that
[132:19] that that will be your light. Okay.
[132:23] >> And a follow-up question based on that
[132:24] imagination. Um what is your opinion on
[132:28] Platinus' processes and eventually like
[132:30] George Barklay's view of idealism as a
[132:34] metaphysical framework of the world and
[132:36] the projecting of the world rising from
[132:39] consciousness leading to matter rather
[132:41] than matter leading to consciousness.
[132:43] >> I think that that makes a a lot more
[132:44] sense than matter leading to
[132:46] consciousness. Okay. I I I I think the
[132:49] universe is consciousness and this
[132:51] material world it's a simulation or it's
[132:54] a delusion that we've created for for
[132:56] ourselves. Um that explains a lot more
[132:59] than the reverse where like so for
[133:01] example like I you how do you explain
[133:04] consciousness right if you just use the
[133:06] emergent materialistic framework you
[133:08] cannot explain consciousness and that's
[133:09] why they don't even bother trying to
[133:11] answer the question of where a
[133:13] consciousness comes from.
[133:14] >> Okay. Okay. Thank you.
[133:16] >> Thank you. All right.
[133:19] >> Hi, professor. Great to meet in person.
[133:21] Uh, two questions. Uh, number one, as a
[133:24] >> Could you ask just one, please?
[133:25] >> Yeah. Sorry. Yeah, we're we're short on
[133:27] time. Yeah.
[133:28] >> Okay. Um,
[133:30] as a fellow teacher, what tips uh, and
[133:35] pedagogical practices would you
[133:37] recommend uh to somebody um, who works
[133:41] at the middle school level? Yeah. where
[133:44] uh
[133:45] uh they don't have as much of a
[133:48] excessive vocabulary as
[133:50] >> high school and um where you use
[133:54] narration storytelling as uh
[133:56] methodologies
[133:58] um how what other techniques would you
[134:01] recommend where uh there may be language
[134:04] barriers? Okay.
[134:07] So, I would say the most the three most
[134:08] powerful words you you can ever utter as
[134:10] a teacher is I am wrong.
[134:15] >> Okay. If you do that every single day, I
[134:16] guarantee your students will be very
[134:18] different regardless of the age group or
[134:20] the the language barrier. Okay? If you
[134:22] just say every day, if if you just make
[134:24] a conscious effort to say, "I am wrong."
[134:27] Okay? What that what that does is it
[134:29] models self-reflection and humility
[134:33] um and self forgiveness in the student
[134:36] you know because if the teacher can say
[134:37] I am wrong that gives permission to the
[134:40] student to say oh I can be wrong as well
[134:43] and I should just accept I can be wrong
[134:46] and then learn from my mistakes and
[134:47] improve and that that's the greatest
[134:50] gift you you you can ever give uh to
[134:52] your students.
[134:53] >> Okay.
[134:53] >> Great. Thank you.
[134:54] >> Okay. All right. Um yeah. Yeah. back
[134:57] back there and then over here you you
[134:59] you over here. Okay.
[135:01] >> U professor, can I ask a question?
[135:03] >> Yeah, go ahead.
[135:04] >> Okay. Uh thank you so much for
[135:05] everything that you do. Um regarding
[135:07] dollar, what are the few key
[135:10] consequential events that you foresee
[135:12] happening and what does the replacement
[135:15] look like?
[135:16] >> Uh the US dollar.
[135:17] >> Yeah. Um,
[135:21] so JD Vance has come out and said that
[135:23] he thinks the US dollar as the global
[135:25] reserve currency is a bad idea. Um, and
[135:31] a lot of people are saying, well, I
[135:33] think they're trying to signal the US
[135:35] dollar is is is not going to be the
[135:37] global reserve currency anymore. And no
[135:40] one wants to be the global reserve
[135:41] currency because because as I pointed
[135:44] out before, it's a dumb thing to do.
[135:47] Like why would you want to be the global
[135:48] reserve of currency? You have no control
[135:51] over your currency. It leads to
[135:53] financial speculation and then you have
[135:55] to like you know invest a lot in in in
[135:58] the military, right? So no one wants to
[136:00] be the global reserve currency and so I
[136:03] think by default there'll be a basket in
[136:05] place. Um already you have these
[136:07] European banks saying you know we'll
[136:09] we'll start using the Chinese be more.
[136:12] Um so I think the US dollar will still
[136:16] be around because it's a default option
[136:19] and there's no other there's no other
[136:21] alternative and
[136:24] um
[136:25] um so it's not that US dollar will be
[136:30] replaced it's more like you have total
[136:34] global economic collapse
[136:37] right so the currency is no longer
[136:39] relevant because nations are no longer
[136:41] able trade with with each other.
[136:44] >> Okay.
[136:44] >> So, the plumbing will break and there
[136:46] will be fireworks.
[136:48] >> I I think I I think we're heading
[136:52] towards a calamity beyond anyone's
[136:55] imagination.
[136:57] Um I think if you just look at the
[136:59] progress of things these past uh 6
[137:03] months, it's just astonishing. I mean
[137:06] like can you imagine six months before
[137:08] we we'd be in a room and saying how
[137:10] United States is is in a war against
[137:12] Iran. We even today we don't know why
[137:14] this war started and the United States
[137:18] has absolutely no strategy to win this
[137:20] war but the United States refuses to
[137:22] withdraw from this war.
[137:25] It's the most silly thing ever. So I
[137:29] think like the stupidity and the
[137:33] arrogance of the leaders today it it's
[137:36] it's just beyond anyone's imagination.
[137:39] >> Okay. All right.
[137:41] >> Hi professor. Um so again right I just
[137:44] want to tie into this individual's uh
[137:45] question uh in front of me. Uh like like
[137:48] finding the source of wealth right
[137:49] there's like the bronze age collapse
[137:50] analogy. Um my thing is right like I'm
[137:54] learning about these AI data centers and
[137:56] the amount of water that they consume
[137:57] right
[137:58] >> and so if we understand right like like
[138:00] you you place a lot of emphasis on uh
[138:02] our wealth being imagination uh and
[138:04] that's a that's a major part of it but I
[138:06] think like uh in like you know the
[138:07] physical world I feel like a lot of our
[138:09] wealth and especially in a bronze age
[138:12] collapse scenario would come from the
[138:13] land and the amount of crops that we
[138:15] were able to grow from the land and
[138:17] provide for those people around us right
[138:19] and so like the I mean that's just like
[138:21] my conspiracy theory is like they're
[138:22] consuming so much water to deny a a
[138:25] level of wealth that the average
[138:27] individual could get from being able to
[138:28] produce the crops that they have um you
[138:30] know for themselves. So like how much
[138:33] importance would you place on um
[138:35] personal and familial gardening and like
[138:38] re and like like plant cultivation as a
[138:40] way to survive what is coming?
[138:43] >> So I think most people will die
[138:46] not because they lack access to food and
[138:48] water. I think it's just because they
[138:51] cannot accept that the world is
[138:53] collapsing around them. Okay? They're so
[138:56] uh focused, they're so pigheaded
[139:00] about
[139:01] the world, like you know, they're
[139:02] they're have they're so invested in the
[139:04] world that they refuse to accept change
[139:07] is possible. Uh and you know, like like
[139:10] listen, if if you just talk to ordinary
[139:13] middle class Americans, they're like,
[139:14] "Oh, well, you know, when Trump leaves
[139:16] office, things will will go back to
[139:17] normal." They They literally believe
[139:19] this and like, well, how can you
[139:21] actually believe this? But they
[139:23] literally believe this and and and so
[139:24] they choose to put their heads in the
[139:26] sand. So when that happens, it's they'll
[139:29] just break down mentally and then
[139:31] they'll just die.
[139:33] >> Does that make sense? It's it's not a
[139:35] question of like, you know, like like
[139:37] can you access food and water? Cuz like
[139:38] if you want to, you can still access
[139:40] food and water. It's just like people
[139:41] would rather die than accept that
[139:43] they're wrong.
[139:45] >> Okay.
[139:45] >> Yeah. And I and I I I that'll be a lot
[139:48] of people.
[139:49] >> Yeah.
[139:50] >> This room is like this. We are we're
[139:51] like trying to This room is getting our
[139:53] head out of like the sand.
[139:54] >> Exactly. Exactly. You know, you you're
[139:56] you've been awakened. You're you're out
[139:58] of the matrix now. Right.
[140:00] >> Right. Okay.
[140:02] >> So, so, so sorry. Yeah. Up here. Yes.
[140:05] >> Okay. Uh Dante says free will is
[140:09] foundational. Um, how does that
[140:11] influence your understanding of these
[140:13] like personal tragedies you see in the
[140:15] news? Like for example, a mother with
[140:18] postpartum depression killing her
[140:20] children or a kid that's been on SSRIs
[140:23] his whole life going crazy. Like how do
[140:26] we as a society come to like a shared
[140:29] understanding about those things? Like
[140:31] what do we take away from that?
[140:35] >> Yeah, that's a really good question. So
[140:39] again um we all come here for our own
[140:42] individual experience
[140:44] and why we've come is something that
[140:48] that is unique to us and um so for
[140:52] example for most of my life I've
[140:55] struggled with why I had the child
[140:59] childhood that I had because you know I
[141:02] grew up as a poor immigrant in Toronto
[141:03] where I suffered a lot of racism and
[141:05] bullying. Uh my family was very very
[141:08] poor. I mean like like they're still
[141:09] very very poor and uh I grew up in a
[141:13] culture a Chinese culture that um I felt
[141:17] was very anti intellectual
[141:19] and for for the longest time for decades
[141:22] I I I suffered from depression. I felt
[141:25] traumatized because of my childhood in
[141:27] Toronto and my uh education at Yale. I
[141:30] just was very angry and depressed at the
[141:32] world. I was like why am I here? like
[141:36] what purpose does it serve
[141:39] um anyone for me to suffer like this?
[141:42] There can't be a god because no god
[141:44] would be this evil to make me suffer.
[141:46] Like I I just felt like my life was just
[141:48] pointless and
[141:51] uh there was no god. There couldn't be a
[141:53] god because it was so
[141:57] um chaotic. But now looking back at my
[142:00] life, I felt like the only path to my
[142:04] own personal enlightenment, my own
[142:05] personal salvation was through this
[142:07] path, you know, if if I really wanted to
[142:10] like open my eyes and see the truth, I
[142:12] needed an intense period of personal
[142:15] suffering and personal questioning. And
[142:18] there's really no other way, right? I
[142:20] mean, like like like how how am I able
[142:22] to be so creative? And I think that my
[142:25] creativity comes from these decades of
[142:29] personal trauma. And I'm not saying
[142:32] personal trauma leads to creativity.
[142:34] Okay? I'm not saying that. I'm saying
[142:36] like I'm not saying to traum your kids,
[142:37] man. Okay? I'm not saying that. Uh but
[142:40] I'm saying like we all came for a
[142:41] purpose and this purpose determines a
[142:44] lot of things that happen in our life.
[142:46] And you know I think that I came with
[142:48] with a spec with a specific purpose of
[142:52] trying to enlighten others and that
[142:54] means first of all seeing
[142:56] self-enlightenment and that can be only
[142:57] done through personal tragedy and
[142:59] personal trauma. So I don't know why
[143:01] these things happen to people but I
[143:03] would say
[143:06] I I would say um if they look deep
[143:08] within themselves they will find a
[143:10] deeper meaning behind all all these
[143:12] tragedies. I think a lot of people in
[143:15] this room and I know certainly for
[143:17] myself have gone through something
[143:19] traumatic that made them ask more
[143:21] questions about the world and that's
[143:23] what opens them up to your ideas.
[143:25] >> That's right.
[143:26] >> So I don't know how to get through to
[143:28] people who haven't had that.
[143:31] >> Like it's like talking to a robot. They
[143:34] just
[143:35] >> they can't hear you out. Well, I mean,
[143:38] you know, I've I've been a teacher for
[143:40] my my entire adult life and for the
[143:43] longest time I was not reaching people.
[143:47] Uh people thought I was crazy. I mean,
[143:49] imagine like, you know, 10 years ago,
[143:51] you watch my YouTube videos, you would
[143:52] think, you think I'm I'm insane, you
[143:54] know? Um and and but I I kept on doing
[143:59] what I'm doing because for me, it's not
[144:02] about reaching others. It's about
[144:05] learning things for myself. Like I I
[144:07] have this like this passion for truth
[144:09] seeeking, for my own personal
[144:10] enlightenment. Um and what others do and
[144:13] think doesn't really matter to me. Uh
[144:17] but because I had this passion for truth
[144:19] seeeking, uh that that that that's
[144:22] allowed me to reach many people when
[144:24] when the time is appropriate. So so I I
[144:27] would just say um do what is right in
[144:31] your heart. And what is right in your
[144:33] heart is to pursue the truth. Because I
[144:35] could imagine myself
[144:38] working a job I didn't like uh saying
[144:43] things that I didn't believe even though
[144:45] that's what most people people uh do.
[144:47] But that's that that's why I've been
[144:49] poor my life because I rather be poor
[144:52] than to live the lie. Um so a lot of
[144:56] things are just a personal choice and
[144:57] what others choose I think are not
[144:59] really relevant. Okay. Um, we we we uh
[145:04] sorry so but but someone at the back.
[145:06] Yes.
[145:13] >> Hello, professor. Uh my name is Aldemar.
[145:16] I'm coming I'm from Colombia. I live in
[145:19] a very poor neighborhood in Jackson
[145:22] Heights in Queens. And [clears throat]
[145:25] there is a lot of kids and youth. They
[145:28] they don't have uh religion studies in
[145:30] their schools. Uh fathers, moms, they
[145:34] work two jobs, seven days a week. Um I'm
[145:38] dealing with something. I want to spread
[145:40] the word of faith and hope. But how do I
[145:44] overcome the fact that I feel judged by
[145:47] my religion when my religion tells me
[145:49] that if you don't behave well, then you
[145:52] go to hell. If you have you have to
[145:54] behave good in order to go to heaven. So
[145:56] it's my question would be how do I
[145:58] overcome that that um bridge of me going
[146:04] to people and say hey there is hope
[146:06] there is love to uh to share
[146:11] I don't know if I make myself
[146:12] >> yeah I understand so much so so I don't
[146:16] think it's important to convince others
[146:18] I I think it's just important to live
[146:21] the truth yourself and then and then
[146:24] when you do that what happens s is
[146:27] others will naturally gravitate towards
[146:29] you, right? Um if that makes if that
[146:32] makes sense, right? So so rather than
[146:34] trying to convince others, you just live
[146:36] the truth yourself, then others will
[146:38] come find you.
[146:39] >> Thank you.
[146:40] >> Okay.
[146:40] >> Thank you so much.
[146:41] >> All right. Uh over here.
[146:49] >> Hi, professor.
[146:50] >> So we'll do three more questions, okay?
[146:52] Cuz like the food's ready and um Yeah.
[146:56] Yeah. H knowing what you know about
[146:58] history and where the world seems to be
[147:01] heading,
[147:02] >> has that changed
[147:03] >> the way the way you are raising your own
[147:05] child, what are the things that you are
[147:07] most intentional about uh as a parent?
[147:11] >> Yeah, that's a great question. So, um
[147:14] when when I first had my uh child, uh
[147:19] he's outside eating right now and he's
[147:21] just doesn't care. Um
[147:24] um I was I thought I knew how to raise a
[147:28] child perfectly because I I you know
[147:29] I've been work working education for the
[147:31] past 20 years and I read a lot of books.
[147:33] I knew all about neuroscience and then
[147:36] what I realized is the child is not
[147:39] yours. The child is uh from God and
[147:44] you're blessed to be with with a child
[147:47] but but the child has come with his or
[147:50] her own purpose. uh his or own tilos and
[147:55] he or she is going to seek a path that
[147:57] is right for him or her and you can um
[148:01] provide some support but you cannot
[148:04] actually uh direct the child in the way
[148:07] that that you want and if you try to
[148:12] control the child it's going to lead to
[148:14] a lot of unhappiness because because the
[148:16] child will be unhappy and and the child
[148:19] will make you unhappy. So, one thing
[148:21] that I I've learned to do is basically
[148:25] um trust the child and let him or her uh
[148:30] seek the path that he or she uh wants.
[148:34] Um and so my child who's eight um he
[148:38] doesn't speak any English because well I
[148:42] mean um he doesn't want to learn
[148:44] English,
[148:45] >> right? I speak English. If he wanted to
[148:46] learn English, he would ask me, "Can you
[148:48] teach me English?" He's he he's never
[148:49] done that. Right. So, um, so I I've
[148:53] learned to let go and see each child as
[148:57] a child of God and not as my child.
[149:00] >> Awesome. Thank you.
[149:01] >> Okay. Okay. Any more questions at the
[149:05] back? Thank Thank you.
[149:09] >> Hi. Thank you for doing this. Uh, I just
[149:12] wanted to know in your life when you
[149:14] said there was like 10 years ago or so
[149:15] you had uh no job and whatnot. Was it
[149:20] did you did could you have a job that
[149:22] was comfortable and you decided to not
[149:25] take that route because it wasn't true
[149:26] to you? Basically, I'm trying to say
[149:29] like would you have settled for comfort
[149:31] had it been possible back then or you
[149:36] kind of didn't want to in order to
[149:38] pursue your
[149:40] >> Yeah, that's a great question. So, um
[149:44] I'm very strange. All right. And I think
[149:46] that what makes me unique is all my
[149:49] entire life I've I've absolutely refused
[149:51] to compromise because you know I went to
[149:54] Yale. I'm [snorts] a very good writer.
[149:56] I'm a very good communicator and I could
[150:00] have easily set up for an a corporate
[150:02] job or done public relations. I mean,
[150:06] um, I could have also in China, I could
[150:08] have also like helped students apply to
[150:11] Yale University, and that's very
[150:13] lucrative, but I just chose to live a
[150:19] life of poverty rather than compromise,
[150:23] rather than doing things I I I I don't
[150:25] like. And a lot of the reason why is
[150:27] when I do things I don't like, I can't
[150:29] sleep. So the most miserable six months
[150:32] of my life was when I was working for
[150:33] the United Nations in Afghanistan. And
[150:36] if you ever worked for the United
[150:36] Nations, okay, it is like the best job
[150:40] possible. It is the easiest job possible
[150:43] because like no no one actually does any
[150:44] work and you're there
[150:46] collecting a huge paycheck and it's very
[150:49] prestigious
[150:50] and you know they give you this blue
[150:52] passport
[150:54] um and it's very you know it feels
[150:57] really good but I couldn't sleep because
[151:00] I knew that what I was doing um came at
[151:04] the cause of the local Afghan people
[151:08] because the local afan people were like
[151:10] starving. And I was making like, you
[151:11] know, six figures a year and I was
[151:14] having like, you know, um lunch at a at
[151:17] a restaurant uh that was five stars and
[151:19] and so I couldn't live for myself. I
[151:22] mean like I I literally could not sleep
[151:23] the entire time. I was grinding my
[151:26] teeth. I had anxiety. I I I So after
[151:31] that, I I I just learned like I rather
[151:34] suffer than betray myself. And I think
[151:38] that's actually true for everyone. It's
[151:41] just like maybe
[151:43] um others have like higher tolerance
[151:46] than I do.
[151:47] >> Could you sleep while suffering at that
[151:49] time?
[151:50] >> Excuse me.
[151:50] >> Could you sleep when you were suffering?
[151:52] >> I could not sleep. I could not sleep. I
[151:53] literally could not sleep. I just wrote
[151:54] in bed all the time and I hated myself.
[151:57] Like like like my entire body was
[151:58] shaking the entire time because I knew
[152:02] this was evil. Okay. the fact that you
[152:04] you're in Afghanistan and like people
[152:06] here were starving and like you were
[152:09] collecting you know this six figure
[152:10] paycheck
[152:12] um and also you were part of this evil
[152:14] occupation force right because the
[152:16] Americans weren't there to help the
[152:18] Afghan people they were there to do drug
[152:21] smuggling drug smuggling like like when
[152:24] the Americans went in uh opium
[152:26] production went like that okay during
[152:28] the during the pine you didn't have any
[152:30] opium production then the then the
[152:32] Americans came and like And they they
[152:34] basically facilitated opin production so
[152:37] that the secular family could produce
[152:39] their uh fentanyl drugs the opiates
[152:43] which led to suicides
[152:46] a a suicide epidemic throughout the
[152:48] country. Okay. So and I I knew this
[152:51] because you because you could see it and
[152:53] so I I couldn't sleep at all and and I
[152:55] was so relieved after I I I quit.
[152:58] >> Thank you.
[152:59] >> Yeah. Okay. One last question guys.
[153:00] Okay. Uh over here. Okay. and and and
[153:02] and that's it. But but it's been great.
[153:04] Thank you so much for for coming. Um
[153:10] >> good evening.
[153:10] >> One last question. The last question.
[153:12] Okay. Yes. Go ahead.
[153:13] >> Good evening, professor. Uh so I had a
[153:15] friend who showed me your YouTube
[153:16] channel a few months back. Um and when I
[153:20] came across the Plato's allegory of the
[153:21] cave,
[153:23] it was it was hell.
[153:27] Um,
[153:29] >> what kind of advice would you have for
[153:30] somebody going through that kind of
[153:33] realization that none of it's real?
[153:36] >> Um,
[153:38] I would say
[153:41] that's what waking up looks like. You
[153:43] know, you go through hell, right?
[153:45] Because remember when Plato talks about
[153:46] the algo of the cave, he's not like, you
[153:48] know, the guy walks in a light and he's
[153:50] like happy happy. No, no, he's going
[153:52] through hell.
[153:53] >> I wept a lot.
[153:54] >> You you wave. you um you know um what
[153:58] what's happening the occultist would say
[154:01] you're going through spiritual alchemy
[154:02] but the neuroscientist would would just
[154:04] say you're going through sematic
[154:06] reconnections and and it's a very it's a
[154:08] it's a hellless process like it's it's
[154:11] it's like your brain is is just
[154:13] literally reconfiguring itself to
[154:15] reconceive the world in in a new way
[154:18] right I mean it it is hellish and it is
[154:20] painful but like once you go through it
[154:22] you you can never go back Yeah.
[154:25] >> Right. And then you're happier for it.
[154:27] So, um, and I think that's why a lot of
[154:30] people don't go through this process
[154:32] because they know that to see things in
[154:36] this way, even though it's a truth, it
[154:38] means basically abandoning everything
[154:40] that you've known and embracing the
[154:43] unknown. And they don't want to go
[154:45] through this. And that's why I think we
[154:48] should be sympathetic or tolerant or
[154:50] respectful, right? and just say like you
[154:52] know just because I went through it
[154:53] doesn't mean you have to go through it.
[154:55] Um but once you go through it um then
[154:58] you can never go back and
[155:01] um you know how the world works. So you
[155:04] know this is just a phase a stage in our
[155:08] lives and we are eternal. Our souls are
[155:11] eternal and when we come back at a later
[155:14] stage we will be we will be much more
[155:17] enlightened. we will be much more
[155:18] happier and we won't have to go through
[155:20] the same process again.
[155:22] >> Okay. All right.
[155:23] >> Thank you.
[155:24] >> Okay. So, thanks so much guys. It's been
[155:26] wonderful. Thanks so much Kathy.