Global Meet-Up #2 (Los Angeles): The "End of the World" US Tour

全球见面会第2期（洛杉矶）：“世界末日”全美巡讲 Professor Jiang概述了“美利坚治世”（Pax Americana）的结构性耗竭，通过1971年尼克松冲击、美元武器化以及缺乏资产支撑的欧洲美元扩张，追溯了二战后秩序的瓦解。他指出，金融化、机构官僚化和精英过剩驱动了帝国的衰落，为国内经济困境与公开的对外冲突埋下了伏笔。Jiang尖锐抨击了常春藤盟校的精英选拔制度，称其为旨在庇护统治精英免受追责的封闭式意识形态规训体系。最后，他敦促个人超越世俗唯物主义和僵化的教条宗教，倡导培养多维精神意识、奉献家庭并寻求内在自洽。 美国近期据估计动用50亿至100亿美元进行干预以支撑日元，离岸融资压力目前面临戳破私人信贷泡沫以及高资本投入的AI基础设施投资的风险。 (12:02) 冻结约3000亿美元的俄罗斯主权资产并将SWIFT武器化，已永久侵蚀了外国对美国国债的信任，促使中国及非结盟央行大举增持实物黄金储备。 (10:04) 中东防务架构正从美利坚治世的直接安全保障转向本土化的“犹太治世”（Pax Judea）权力平衡，针对伊朗的实地秘密军事行动已经启动。 (46:04) 由于离岸欧洲美元网络的规模无法量化，真正重返金本位在结构上仍不可能，这将导致货币贬值不受遏制，直至一场人为设计的1929年式大萧条重置劳工的顺从度。 (95:00)

Professor Jiang argues that the United States has entered terminal imperial exhaustion driven by financialization, institutional decay, and unpayable sovereign obligations. He contends that the post-World War II global order is fracturing into volatile regional conflicts and economic disruption, requiring individuals to seek spiritual and familial grounding rather than relying on technocratic meritocracy. Monetary Architecture and the Fiat Debt Engine (3:07) Jiang traces modern economic instability to the unraveling of the 1944 Bretton Woods agreement. Originally anchored by gold-backed dollar loans to rebuild war-torn export markets, the arrangement collapsed in August 1971 when President Richard Nixon severed gold convertibility amid rising domestic spending, the Vietnam War, and foreign redemption claims. To preserve currency primacy, Washington established the Saudi petrodollar accord to price global energy exclusively in greenbacks, while simultaneously integrating China's labor force to manufacture consumer goods and recycle trade surpluses back into US Treasuries. According to Jiang, restoring a sound monetary foundation via a gold peg is now mathematically impossible due to the offshore Eurodollar shadow banking system, whose true multi-trillion aggregate volume cannot be audited or settled. He warns that the system rests on a precarious liquidity loop funded by Middle Eastern capital and the Japanese yen. If external buyers cease absorbing US sovereign debt—a dynamic worsened by the freezing of $300 billion in Russian foreign reserves in 2022—the financial engine propping up artificial intelligence assets and private credit markets risks sudden collapse. Drivers of Imperial Decline and Elite Accelerationism (16:20) Rejecting the idea that political disruptions like Brexit or Donald Trump's 2016 election were isolated accidents, Jiang diagnoses the contemporary crisis as the structural product of late-stage imperial decay. He outlines three historical catalysts: runaway financialization, in which speculative capital consistently out-yields productive enterprise; administrative bureaucratization; and elite overproduction, evidenced by intensifying factional conflicts between Wall Street financiers and Silicon Valley oligarchs. Jiang contends that entrenched elite factions do not invent these macro-historical cycles, but operate as conscious 'accelerationists.' Recognizing that systemic mathematical breakdown is unavoidable, these actors deliberately hasten disruptions to control the calendar of the crash and maximize financial returns during asset liquidations. In parallel, tech leaders like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel view this decline through the lens of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, attempting to construct technological escape hatches—such as artificial intelligence, massive data centers, and space colonization—to bypass the historical suffering of an ensuing dark age. Geopolitical Realignments and Middle Eastern Hegemony (46:04) As rising fiscal burdens force Washington to abandon direct global defense guarantees under Pax Americana, Jiang argues the United States is shifting toward regional balance-of-power arrangements. In the Middle East, he characterizes the 2003 invasion of Iraq as an act of imperial self-harm from the standpoint of energy security, because removing Saddam Hussein eliminated the primary regional counterweight against Iran. Instead, Jiang attributes the invasion to ideological doctrines outlined in the 1996 'Clean Break' memo prepared for Benjamin Netanyahu by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. Jiang traces this policy lineage back to the 1970s staff network of hawkish US Senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson, which intersected with Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. In Jiang's assessment, this ideological axis seeks to transition the region from American stewardship into a localized hegemony dominated by Israel. He asserts that modern covert escalations, including operations against Iran, are masked from public resistance by manufactured media theater and political distraction. The Meritocracy Trap and Spiritual Realignment (34:27) Jiang diagnoses institutional paralysis through the failure of Enlightenment rationalism and the professional-managerial class. Citing his own undergraduate years at Yale, he characterizes elite universities as high-pressure indoctrination systems that condition talented individuals to prioritize status and relentless achievement over moral purpose. He points to the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, where political elites rescued culpable Wall Street executives rather than distressed homeowners, as evidence of an insulated ruling caste shielded from real-world consequences. To counter pervasive despair and technocratic nihilism, Jiang advocates moving past organized religious dogma into 'free spirituality' and divine consciousness. Drawing on Dante, Homer, and Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative, he asserts that individual moral conduct shapes collective reality. Jiang concludes that enduring resilience against systemic decline requires rejecting purely secular materialism in favor of grounded human devotions: raising a family, cultivating love, and regaining cognitive autonomy outside conventional institutions. Jiang projects a violent, highly unequal transition toward a post-neoliberal order as fiat debt cycles exhaust themselves. While he asserts that historical macro-cycles cannot be averted at the ballot box, his thesis leaves open whether individual spiritual awakening and familial focus can provide effective resilience against large-scale economic collapse and elite-managed shocks.

[1:56] Professor Jiang: there better be cocaine in this thing [3:07] Professor Jiang: like a Roman emperor [5:03] Professor Jiang: exorbitant privilege [8:42] Professor Jiang: a gas station with nukes [12:02] Professor Jiang: Ponzi scheme [37:19] Professor Jiang: These people should have gone to jail. Okay. A lot of things they do were clearly criminal. Like calling an elderly person who was handicapped and tricking him or her into signing a mortgage he or she couldn't afford. That's clearly criminal. That's clearly fraud. And they got away with it... [40:10] Professor Jiang: There really isn't another side to this story, man... Sorry, I can't even bother to explain to you what happened. [64:47] Menachem Mendel Schneerson: When is the Messiah coming? [64:47] Benjamin Netanyahu: Soon [64:47] Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Let's hurry it up. [67:48] Professor Jiang: one between organized religion and free spirituality. [67:48] Professor Jiang: the universe is first and foremost consciousness and like attracts like. [69:59] Professor Jiang: The Divine Comedy, Homer, the Iliad, that's a work of God. But the Bible, it's a collection of texts that have been plagiarized, and if you take it literally, then that gets you in a lot of trouble. [87:11] Professor Jiang: School makes you stupid. And the more school you do, the more stupid you become. [93:17] Professor Jiang: I know Yale is terrible, but I'll be the exception... I'll go to Yale and I'll escape the MKUltra programming they have ready for me.

[0:00] Hello everyone. Welcome to the first [0:02] stop in my end of the world global tour. [0:06] Um [0:09] [applause] [0:13] so first of all I would like I would [0:16] like to thank Alli and his team for [0:19] organizing this event. Um as you can see [0:22] it is an amazing space. I also like to [0:24] thank you guys for being paid [0:27] subscribers. Um, as you know, for the [0:29] past 2 years, I've worked as a high [0:31] school teacher in Beijing. And now that [0:34] you're supporting my work, I'm now able [0:37] to travel more around the world and see [0:39] for myself what's going on in this world [0:42] so I can do better geopolitical uh [0:44] analysis. So, what I want to do today is [0:48] basically provide a framework for [0:51] understanding how we got to this point [0:53] and where we're going. So to start, I [0:57] want to tell you my first impressions of [0:59] Los Angeles. It's my first time here and [1:02] Theo Vaughn invited me to be on this [1:04] podcast. So um I want to thank Theo [1:07] Vaughn and his team uh for being such [1:09] gracious holes. I came in Wednesday and [1:12] they put me in West Hollywood, a very [1:13] nice place, beautiful, a really [1:16] beautiful hotel. And I enjoy walking [1:18] around the city in Ward sense of the the [1:22] culture. And I was walking around the um [1:26] Sunset Boulevard area and the [1:28] residential area is just beautiful and [1:32] I'm just admiring the houses, the [1:35] sunlight, the beautiful all and then I [1:37] see right in the middle of the pavement [1:40] is a pile of dog I obviously walk [1:44] around it. It takes me a couple minutes [1:47] before I realize it probably didn't come [1:50] from a dog. [1:52] So, that's my first impression of LA, [1:54] unfortunately. [1:56] And then my next impression of LA is I [1:59] went to breakfast and I I went to the [2:03] cheapest place I could find. I paid $17 [2:06] for avocado on toast. [2:10] $17 on avocado on toast. And I was like, [2:14] there better be cocaine in this thing. [2:16] Okay. And unfortunately, there wasn't. [2:19] So, um I I've been walking around the [2:21] city. There's a really a lot of homeless [2:23] people. There's a lot of drug addicts. [2:26] And the impression that I I've dealt [2:28] these past three days is America is [2:32] suffering from imperial exhaustion. Uh [2:35] it's an empire really in decline. It's [2:37] exhausted. [2:38] And you know, when I was in China, [2:42] um I would just hear Americans talk [2:45] great things about China. and I live in [2:48] China and I see all the problems and I [2:50] really didn't understand why Americans [2:52] thought China was great until I came [2:54] here and see the world from your [2:56] perspective and honestly from your [2:59] perspective everything is great. So let [3:02] me give some historical background as to [3:05] how we got to this point. So the year is [3:07] 1944 and America is about to win this [3:10] war against Japan and Germany. They [3:14] organized the bread and wits conference [3:15] in New Hampshire and the idea is to [3:18] establish the US dollar as a world [3:20] reserve currency. The logic of this is [3:23] very simple. Uh World War II, America [3:26] had to build a lot of factories to [3:28] supply armaments for its war machine. [3:31] Now that the war is coming to an end, [3:33] what do you do with these factories? And [3:35] the answer is you turn these factories [3:38] from manufacturing munitions and weapons [3:41] to manufacturing TVs, cars for the [3:43] global market. Problem is uh the entire [3:47] world is destroyed because of World War [3:48] II. So America, what America did was [3:51] lend the world the money in order to buy [3:57] uh cars and washing machines and [4:00] television sets. And this became the [4:03] basis for Pax Americana as well as the [4:06] US dollar uh system. Now because America [4:09] was lending so much money to Europe and [4:11] to Japan, it needed collateral for this [4:15] financing and this collateral of course [4:17] was gold. So the agreement was that US [4:21] dollars would always be pegged to gold. [4:23] We call this a gold standard and it [4:25] worked great for the first 10 years, [4:28] first 10, 20 years because it allowed [4:31] the average American middle class uh [4:34] person to live like a Roman emperor. If [4:37] you were a white male in 1950s, [4:42] um you were in paradise. Um you you had [4:46] maybe a factory job, but with that with [4:48] that factory job, you could have your [4:50] wife work at home. You could raise three [4:53] kids and have them all go to college. [4:56] You could um go on vacation twice a [4:58] year. You had two cars. It really was [4:59] the best life. But unfortunately [5:03] um America started to waste a lot of [5:06] this what we call exorbitant privilege, [5:08] the right to print US dollars. And so [5:11] America started to do stupid things like [5:13] for example the war in Vietnam, uh the [5:16] space race, the great society. And at [5:20] this point, the world recognized that [5:23] maybe America is spending too much [5:25] money. At the same time, [5:28] the rest of the world is catching up to [5:29] America industrially. So Germany and [5:31] Japan um they were deficit in the war, [5:34] but they're working really hard and now [5:37] their industrial capacity is surpassing [5:39] that of the United States. So that [5:40] what's happened is America went from a [5:43] creditor nation to a debtor nation. And [5:46] that's bad because you owe everyone gold [5:50] and there's not enough gold in the world [5:52] to pay off the debt. So what happens is [5:55] in 1971 Richard Nixon declares, "Oh, [5:59] remember how in 1944 we agreed that US [6:03] dollars will be pegged to gold. The gold [6:06] standard will forget about it. Okay? [6:09] From now on the US dollar it's all free [6:11] floating. It's just fi fiat currency. it [6:14] it we will not give you gold uh for US [6:18] dollars. So now this creates a crisis of [6:20] confidence and to resolve this crisis of [6:23] confidence Nixon does two things. He [6:26] visits Saudi Arabia and agrees to get [6:29] them to sell oil only in US dollars. We [6:34] call this the petro dollar. And the [6:36] other thing that he does is he goes to [6:38] China and gets China to start to [6:42] liberalize its economy to start working [6:44] in the United States. Uh and basically [6:46] what China does is use its cheap labor [6:49] in order to make to manufacture goods [6:52] for the global economy and sell its [6:54] cheap labor um in US dollars. Okay. And [6:58] these two things what happened in the [7:00] Middle East and what happened in uh East [7:02] Asia now becomes the new framework for [7:05] the global economy. And the idea is that [7:09] uh the Middle East will sell its oil to [7:12] East Asia so that Japan, South Korea, [7:16] Taiwan, China could then make [7:19] manufactured goods to sell the world. [7:22] And all this is being facilitated in US [7:24] dollars. And all this money because it's [7:26] being facilitated in US dollars goes [7:28] back to America. But because of this [7:31] global system, America now has to shift [7:33] from a manufacturing power to a [7:35] financial power in order to process all [7:37] this trade. Okay. And this is this has [7:40] led to the financialization, the hauling [7:42] out of the American manufacturing uh [7:46] sector. And um this has led to [7:49] tremendous problems in American society. [7:52] For one thing, it's led to tremendous [7:55] inequality. Uh another thing is that uh [8:00] America now is forced to provide [8:02] security guarantees for the entire [8:04] world. So its military is overextended. [8:08] Uh this is what is called imperial [8:10] overstretch. Another thing that happens [8:12] is there's so much power in the [8:14] financial sector that leads to [8:15] corruption. And and this is what [8:17] obviously led to the 2008 supreme crisis [8:20] because you got these Wall Street bank [8:21] banks out of control and they were all [8:24] engaged in speculation and they didn't [8:27] really care because they knew that no [8:29] matter what happened the government [8:30] would pick up pick up the tab at the end [8:32] of the day. So uh they engaged in all [8:36] this reckless behavior and this has led [8:39] to the world that we live in today. [8:42] Obama was elected in 2008 to fix these [8:45] issues, right? To represent the working [8:46] class. But he didn't do that. That's why [8:49] in 2016 we got Donald Trump who promised [8:52] uh to build a wall to stop illegal [8:53] immigration. Uh he also promised to um [8:58] um basically prevent the world from [8:59] taking advantage of America. And this [9:02] has led to the uh Trump years. And um [9:07] this system was fenally unstable. [9:10] But at the same time there was no [9:12] alternative and so this system uh kept [9:15] on going but there were all these signs [9:18] that the system would eventually break [9:19] down and one of the first major signs [9:22] was Brexit. Another major sign was the [9:25] election of Donald Trump in 2016. But [9:28] the major sign that the system basically [9:32] uh is now in its twilight or is about to [9:34] collapse is a 2022 [9:38] Russian invasion of Ukraine. And this [9:41] was beyond the imagination of many [9:45] American leaders because they grew up in [9:47] a time when American power was [9:49] ascendant. the idea that Russia, which [9:52] is a gas station with nukes, um, is able [9:55] to defy the American order, that set [9:58] shock waves around Europe and the United [10:01] States. What's even worse is that the [10:05] sanctions that America imposed on Russia [10:09] backfired. So, as you remember, um, the [10:13] Americans and Europeans froze about [10:14] 300$300 billion dollars in Russian [10:17] assets around the world. Uh they also [10:19] kicked Russia off the Swift system and [10:23] they imposed all these sanctions on [10:26] Russia. But rather than hurt the Russian [10:28] economy, what it did was destroy the [10:30] credibility of the Western financial [10:33] system. And now countries like China are [10:36] like, "Wait a minute here. If the United [10:38] States can just freeze our assets for no [10:41] reason, then we should not buy that many [10:45] US assets." So now you see this massive [10:48] shift from uh buying US treasuries which [10:51] was previously considered the best [10:53] investment to now buying gold and this [10:55] puts additional pressure on the uh US [10:59] financial system and this war in Ukraine [11:04] it's it's a test of the credibility of [11:07] Pakistan [11:08] but because Russia is a nuclear power [11:12] there's really not much you can do about [11:13] Russia you can support Ukraine all you [11:15] all you want but eventually Ukraine is [11:16] going to get exhausted. So you can make [11:18] the argument that Trump sought this war [11:21] in Iran in order to establish the [11:23] credibility [11:25] reestablish the credibility of Pax [11:26] Americana that ultimately at the at the [11:29] end of the day the US military is the [11:32] greatest military in the world [11:33] invincible and obviously we know what [11:35] happened. Uh this is not true. The US [11:38] military it's very corrupt. Um it's [11:40] overextended. Um it's not very [11:43] strategic. It's very bureaucratic. And [11:45] now basically United States is losing [11:46] this war uh in Iran which is causing [11:49] even more strain on uh the American [11:52] political system. But what's happening [11:55] and this is the most important thing is [11:57] a domino effect is being created where [11:59] this global economic system created by [12:02] the Americans it's now under strain on [12:04] multiple um nodes. Okay. So uh the big [12:09] thing to watch now is Japan because as [12:12] you as you know from the news the [12:15] Japanese currency the yen it is [12:17] collapsing against the US dollar. This [12:19] is a really bad sign. Why? Because Japan [12:23] and the Middle East provide a lot of [12:25] liquidity [12:27] for the globe economy, which basically [12:30] means that this liquidity buys up US [12:33] treasuries, which allows the US economy [12:35] to continue to be a Ponzi scheme. Once [12:38] the Middle East and Japan are no longer [12:41] able to buy US treasuries, [12:43] if they're not able to invest in the US [12:45] economy, then the AI bubble collapses, [12:48] the private credit bubble collapses. [12:52] And we don't know what will happen. [12:55] Okay? Because this is a systems [12:57] collapse. So what's happening in Japan [12:59] is crucial. And that's why for the first [13:01] time in a few decades, the United States [13:04] has intervened [13:06] to save a foreign currency. It's not a [13:09] lot of intervention to save the US [13:11] dollar. But this is the first time in [13:13] like 30 years, United States has [13:15] interveneed on behalf of a foreign [13:18] economy. Some of you may remember uh a [13:21] few days ago Scott Bessim the treasury [13:23] secretary he had a picture um he was [13:26] running on on on a notebook you know [13:29] Japanese yen 5 to10 billion dollars and [13:33] people appreci understood this as [13:35] propaganda where Scott Bezon is trying [13:37] to reassure investors that the the US [13:40] treasury will come in and save the [13:42] Japanese yen but it's also a sign of [13:44] desperation meaning there's really that [13:47] many toolkits there that many um um [13:51] tools that the US Treasury has to stop [13:53] the global economy from collapsing. So, [13:55] it's engaging in optics. It's trying to [13:58] engage in propaganda. It's trying to use [14:00] these tricks to trick you to think [14:02] everything is fine when really we only a [14:05] few months away from total system [14:07] collapse. Okay? And this total system [14:09] collapse. What does it look like? Well, [14:11] it looks like stock market collapse, [14:13] financial collapse, United States, [14:14] right? AI bubble, star credit um private [14:18] credit bubble. It's all being propped up [14:19] by liquidity from around the world. This [14:21] liquidity dries up, the the US economy [14:24] collapses. Okay. It also means famine in [14:28] Africa and other places. And it means [14:32] ultimately the merging of a of the war [14:35] in Ukraine and Iran, which will lead [14:38] ultimately to World War II. I think I [14:41] already think we are in World War II, [14:42] but you can make the argument that we're [14:45] we're still in a regional conflict. And [14:48] so we've reached a point of imperial [14:50] exhaustion, meaning that the system that [14:54] United States created in 1944, it's [14:56] reached its last legs. Okay? Um and and [15:02] right now the people in charge, these [15:04] imperial bureaucrats, they themselves [15:06] are exhausted. They have no ideas. They [15:07] have no imagination. They're just trying [15:10] to use as many tricks as possible to [15:12] maintain this very unstable system. And [15:16] the more desperate they get, the more [15:18] anxious they get, the more unstable the [15:20] system becomes. And so um that is my [15:25] introduction to today. And uh I hope [15:29] this history gives us a framework um to [15:33] have a very vibrant discussion. Okay. So [15:35] thank you very much. Okay. [15:38] >> [applause] [15:42] >> Okay. So, maybe we'll take a five minute [15:44] break and then we'll come back. We'll do [15:45] a fireside chat and then we'll we'll [15:47] have a discussion. Okay. All right. [15:49] >> You know, that was obviously an [15:50] illuminated introduction. Um, and I've [15:52] had a lot of thoughts. It's definitely [15:54] changed my worldview since I discovered [15:56] your your videos. And one of the things [15:58] that I always wonder about is how much [16:00] of what we're seeing now is pre-ordained [16:03] versus a kind of series of political [16:06] accidents like you know Trump getting [16:08] elected the first time, Brexit. [16:11] It feels as though we were almost two [16:12] elections away from avoiding all of [16:14] this. [16:14] >> Yeah. [16:15] >> But when I watch your lectures, I feel [16:16] like this was almost pre-planned, [16:19] pre-ordained. [16:20] >> Yeah. So I would say we are in an age of [16:22] imperial decline. If you look at [16:24] history, empires decline for very much [16:28] the same reasons and the pattern of [16:30] decline is very similar. So I I will say [16:33] there are three major causes of American [16:36] imperial decline. Okay. So the first is [16:39] financialization and you know Thomas [16:41] talks about this in his book [16:42] capital in the 21st century where as [16:45] capitalism progresses eventually you [16:48] reach a point where it's much more [16:51] lucrative to do financial speculation [16:53] than it is to do real wealth creation. [16:56] Right? So let's just imagine you're [16:58] entrepreneur and you work really hard [17:00] like Alli, you know, and you create a [17:03] lot of wealth. You hire a lot of people [17:04] and now you have a lot of savings. So [17:06] what you do with these savings is you [17:08] invest in other enterprises. Okay? You [17:11] engage in financial speculation and what [17:13] you realize is wow financial speculation [17:16] is a lot more profitable than in real [17:20] wealth creation like opening a business. [17:22] And this is just how capitalism works. [17:25] And Thomas shows that over time [17:28] just the logic of capitalism because it [17:31] is really the consolidation of capital [17:33] in the hands of really smart investors [17:36] then stock market speculation will be a [17:38] lot more lucrative than real wealth [17:41] creation. So the example he gives is on [17:44] average if you put your money in stock [17:45] market you might get 5% returns. If you [17:48] open a restaurant or open a factory you [17:50] might get 2% return a year. So [17:53] eventually you reach a point where I'm [17:54] not going to put my I'm not going to go [17:56] open a restaurant or start a business. [17:59] I'll just spend my money money in the [18:00] stock market. And that's where we are [18:02] today, right? It's much more lucrative [18:04] to go uh play the stock market or [18:06] cryptocurrency than it is to open a [18:09] factory. Okay, that's that's number one. [18:11] Number two is you also have the [18:14] bureaucratization of society. Meaning [18:16] that these rock species that were meant [18:19] to coordinate and centralize resources, [18:22] they become bigger and bigger over time [18:25] until they become parasites. In the [18:28] classic example, um, our universities, [18:30] if you go in university 1950s, it was [18:33] really about making sure the professors [18:35] could teach well and do research and [18:38] administrators were just professors who [18:41] volunteered four years of their time, [18:43] right? So professors would become [18:45] university president for four years then [18:47] return to teaching and research. That [18:49] was true for most uh administrative [18:52] faculties. Now the administration [18:54] universities is a full-time bureaucracy. [18:57] And quite honestly there's more of them [18:59] than there are professors. And because [19:01] there's so much of them, they're always [19:02] causing problems in order to justify [19:06] their existence. And that's why we have [19:07] DEI and political correctness and [19:11] student centered learning because they [19:12] want the students to complain in order [19:14] to justify their existence. And that's [19:16] why it's almost impossible as a [19:18] professor to teach because if a student [19:20] complains a dean's going to come to you [19:22] and spend the next few months [19:24] investigating the complaint even though [19:26] the complaint may be completely [19:28] warrantless. All right. So there's a [19:30] huge problem in universities and a lot [19:34] of the reason why is burers expand [19:37] because bureaucrats have children and [19:40] they need to put their children [19:41] somewhere. So it's often in the [19:43] bureaucracy and so that's why [19:45] bureaucracies expand over time. This [19:47] again it's pretty consistent pattern in [19:50] human history. And the third thing uh [19:52] that's driving all this is the idea of [19:55] elite overp production. There's a civil [19:56] war going going on between the Wall [19:58] Street financial elite which has [20:00] controlled America since the Clinton [20:02] Obama years and now you have the the [20:05] Silicon Valley tech oligarchs who are [20:07] trying to uh rest control over policym [20:11] in Washington DC. Okay. 2008 because the [20:14] tech because the financial elite were [20:16] able to control Washington DC they could [20:18] force a bailout. Now what San Altman and [20:22] other techs want to do is basically get [20:26] Trump to nationalize data centers. So [20:28] the cost of AI shifts to the government. [20:32] Okay. Basically government subsidies for [20:34] San Alman and and his brethren. So that [20:38] is why empires decline over time. These [20:40] three reasons. Okay. You have [20:41] financialization, batization and then [20:44] you also have lead of production. Now it [20:47] does seem there is some coronation going [20:49] on right and the reason why is this [20:52] secret societies because they practice [20:54] the occult they have um understanding of [20:57] tens of thousands of years of human [20:59] history they understand the broad scope [21:02] the broad pattern of human history and [21:05] so they're able to anticipate events but [21:08] not only do they do that but what they [21:10] recognize is we can't control the course [21:14] of human events but by working together [21:16] we can accelerate the course of human [21:19] human events. And why is that important? [21:21] Because we we tend to make a lot of [21:23] money doing this, right? The financial [21:25] system will collapse, but if we if we [21:27] can control when it will collapse, we [21:30] will make all the money, right? It's [21:32] going to collapse in later, but if we're [21:34] able to pick the right time when it [21:37] collapses, then we will make a killing. [21:40] And that's why they're so interested in [21:41] astrology and esquetology and all these [21:44] things. So in many ways it does seem [21:46] coordinated but we have to remember that [21:48] these people are not are first and [21:50] foremost accelerationists. They cannot [21:52] change the course of events but they can [21:54] accelerate the course of events. And [21:56] we're already seeing this where you look [21:57] at the 12 years and this past year he's [22:00] done what uh many presidents will do in [22:04] about 10 years, right? We are seeing so [22:06] much change these past few months. And [22:09] the reason why is we are really at the [22:12] end of empire. And so what they're [22:15] trying to do is they're trying to [22:16] accelerate the collapse of empire and [22:19] then basically uh create the conditions [22:21] for a new empire to arise whether it be [22:24] in Israel or Argentina or China. Okay, [22:27] they're trying to accelerate events so [22:29] as to maximize their profit. So 1944 [22:32] until recently we had a a world order, [22:36] liberalism, neoliberalism and now we are [22:39] staring down the barrel of a new world [22:41] order that is much more uncertain. much [22:44] more dangerous and definitely much more [22:46] unequal. Are we just experiencing a [22:48] regression to a historical mean which is [22:51] this is the law of the jungle. That's [22:53] what most of human history has been. We [22:55] had 70 years of prosperity. That's just [22:59] really a blip. Or is it the opposite? Is [23:02] actually the historical mean prosperity, [23:04] collaboration, globalism, and we're [23:08] actually entering an aberration. [23:10] >> Yeah. Okay. So, one text that a lot of [23:15] these tech oligarchs obsess over is [23:18] Isaac Asmos foundation series. Okay? And [23:22] the idea of the foundation series is [23:23] this this is like an empire. And it's [23:25] been around for 10,000 years, but it's [23:28] in decline. And this decline will last [23:33] thousands of years, the dark ages. [23:36] And the dark ages means a time of [23:38] tremendous human suffering. And so what [23:42] they're trying to do in the foundation [23:43] is trying to [23:46] shorten the lifespan uh of the dark ages [23:50] and create an empire as soon as possible [23:53] in order to reduce human suffering. And [23:57] believe it or not, but a lot of these [23:59] people, people like Peter Theel, [24:01] especially Peter Theo, but and Ellen [24:04] Musk, like they see like the ultimate [24:06] purpose is to prevent humanity from [24:10] entering the dark ages. Because if you [24:12] know any history, okay, you know that [24:15] whenever it's decline, what happens now [24:17] is the dark ages. Just like 100 years of [24:20] complete and utter chaos. Think of the [24:23] fall of the Roman Empire. Okay? [24:26] uh think of the bronze age collapse. [24:28] They understand that impaired decline, [24:31] impaired collapse just means tremendous [24:33] human suffering. The complete breakdown [24:35] of civilization, just the most abhorent [24:39] behavior, okay? And they they're [24:42] thinking to themselves, how do we [24:43] prevent that from happening? And that's [24:46] what they see their mission as. That's [24:48] why, you know, they're so obsessed with [24:51] data centers and AI and going to Mars [24:55] because they believe that the technology [24:58] could be a loophole in the grand course [25:02] of human rise and decline, the grand [25:05] story of human rise and decline. Like, [25:08] can we create technology so that we can [25:11] skip from empire to the next stage of [25:14] human evolution? Okay, that's that's [25:16] what they believe. Does that make sense? [25:17] >> Yeah, of course. Of course. This is my [25:19] last question because I've seen some of [25:20] the questions you submitted and they're [25:22] fantastic. So, we'll make time for [25:23] those. You know, I see a lot of young [25:24] people in this crowd and I'm I'd like to [25:27] think I'm still young and uh I am [25:29] scared. So, when I watch your videos and [25:31] I look at the state of the world, it's [25:32] uh it seems pretty dark. But I know that [25:35] uh you've spoken to this and I would [25:36] love to see, you know, your advice for [25:39] young people, I guess, to avoid them [25:40] falling into nihilism, which I suppose [25:43] is his own scop. you know, we don't want [25:45] to feel learned helplessness. We want to [25:47] feel like we can do something about uh [25:49] the future. And uh I'd love to hear your [25:52] take or your advice for young people [25:53] going into this new uh paradigm in the [25:57] world. [25:58] >> Right. So I think a lot of the fear and [26:01] anxiety comes from a fundamental [26:04] misunderstanding of our nature, where we [26:06] came from, what we're doing here, where [26:08] we're going. Um, if you study the [26:10] occult, if you uh read the divine [26:13] comedy, if you read the great books, [26:16] what you recognize is that first and [26:18] foremost we are spiritual beings. That [26:21] we are pure consciousness and we are [26:24] constantly connected to the divine. That [26:27] our consciousness exists in infinite [26:30] dimensions and there's a beauty uh [26:34] there's a real power [26:36] that is inherent in us. But we have [26:39] fallen asleep. We have been blinded and [26:43] we have been tricked into believing that [26:44] no, we are just um a body, a husk. And [26:50] this husk is all that we have. So we [26:52] must cherish it. And once it dies, then [26:56] we die with it. And we've forgotten [27:00] where we came from. And it's because [27:01] we've forgotten and they've been able to [27:02] trick us. That's the source of our [27:04] anxiety. That's the source of our fear. [27:08] And so my advice is to [27:13] reclaim your heritage, okay? We we're [27:16] not husk. We're not just like these [27:19] monkeys here to for fornicate and pass [27:22] on our genes to other generations. We [27:25] are divine spiritual beings that is part [27:31] of the great consciousness we can call [27:33] God. God is in us and we are in God and [27:37] we're here to experience things that we [27:39] couldn't experience in other dimensions. [27:40] And I would say the like the most [27:42] important thing we exper we can [27:43] experience here that we can't experience [27:45] anywhere else is the idea of family. [27:47] Okay? Like having someone you truly love [27:49] and then together raising a family and [27:52] then loving your children and seeing [27:54] seeing them grow old. If you read Homer, [27:57] um what the Odyssey tells us is that is [27:59] the greatest joy, the greatest purpose [28:02] of being alive, of being human, to love [28:05] your family. Uh I'm not sure if you've [28:06] seen Christopher Nolan's film. I have [28:08] not seen it, but reading the Odyssey, I [28:11] will tell you that um that's a special [28:14] theme of Homer. Remember Odysius goes to [28:17] Trojan War seeking fame and glory. like [28:20] Achilles, they all go to Trojan War [28:22] seeking fame and glory and prestige. And [28:26] what they recognize is no, what really [28:30] matters at the end of the day is family. [28:33] Having someone who believes in you, some [28:35] having someone who loves you, that's the [28:37] real purpose of of being here. And so we [28:42] have to as a species, as a people read [28:46] the great books appreciate their meaning [28:49] because they are really challen in in in [28:53] their text and then reclaim our heritage [28:55] as spiritual beings. And once we do that [28:58] then this marks a new age in humanity [29:01] and everything that's happening will be [29:04] nothing in the grand scheme of things. [29:07] We have not really at all manifest our [29:11] true power. Imagine a world in which we [29:15] are fully conscious of our divine [29:17] heritage and we are pursuing our purpose [29:21] our tilos in life. Well, I think that [29:24] sort of world would be a magical world [29:27] full of powers we could never previously [29:30] imagine. Okay. And there are some [29:32] occultists who who who who believe that [29:34] we've created this world before. It's [29:35] called Atlantis. Okay. So, we humans [29:38] what we're capable of doing is uh beyond [29:41] our imagination. Now, I mean, I know [29:43] this world looks impressive. We have [29:45] like airplanes. We have the internet. [29:48] But that's just because we put our minds [29:51] to it. That's just because we want to [29:54] create this world. So imagine if we want [29:56] to create a world in which there is [29:58] peace and prosperity, in which the human [30:00] spirit is free to fully roam the [30:03] universe. Then I think that world will [30:05] be even me be more more magnificent. [30:08] >> Okay. [30:08] >> Yeah, [30:10] >> we have questions many of them very good [30:12] ones. So there's a question from Josh. [30:15] In my opinion, the most critical war in [30:17] the world is not an external physical [30:19] war like those in Ukraine, Israel, and [30:21] Iran. It's an internal war within each [30:23] one of us between materiality and [30:26] spirituality. Do you feel like it's more [30:28] of an internal war? [30:29] >> Yeah. So if you look at all the major [30:31] religions whether it's Hinduism, [30:33] Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, they [30:36] all say the same thing which is we [30:40] ourselves our consciousness is a fractal [30:43] of the universe. Okay? So we're always [30:46] connected to the universe and the [30:48] universe is always within us. We're just [30:50] a reflection of the universe. So what [30:53] happens inside of us is reflected [30:55] throughout the universe. I know this is [30:58] hard to imagine but all of these people, [31:01] all these different religions working in [31:03] different cultures, different uh times, [31:06] they say the same thing. They emphasize [31:08] the same point. And the point is the [31:11] real battle between heaven and hell is [31:13] the battle within us. Uh the moment we [31:16] choose to do to do good, uh the world [31:19] will be a better place. The moment we [31:20] choose to do evil, the world will be a [31:23] worse place. And the classic example [31:25] that I use is the Iliad by Homer where [31:29] you know Achilles at by the end of the [31:31] Iliad has done all these demonic things. [31:36] He caused the death of his best friend [31:38] Petrous. He killed Hector and is [31:41] constantly mutilating his body and he's [31:44] doing so in front of his parents pri and [31:48] Hecuba. He's causing all this tragedy [31:51] and pain throughout the story. And the [31:56] Iliad ends with Hector's father, Pryam, [32:01] forgiving Achilles, going sneaking into [32:04] Achilles tent, kissing the hand of the [32:08] demon who killed his son, and like [32:11] humbling himself before Achilles. And [32:14] that act, it sounds so insignificant, [32:17] but it changes the entire course of the [32:20] universe. Not only because one, it [32:23] allows Achilles to forgive himself. It [32:26] allows him to redeem himself from all [32:28] his evil. Um, and it causes a [32:31] reconciliation between Achilles and Pry [32:33] so that they leave as good friends. But [32:37] this idea, this story, it's captured by [32:39] Homer and internalized in the Iliad so [32:43] that when we read it, it becomes part of [32:45] us as well. Okay. So, it's but you're [32:48] like, well, but that's because someone [32:50] was there to record it. The universe is [32:52] recording every single thing we do and [32:56] it's it's remembering everything that we [32:58] do. And so imagine where you know like [33:01] you you forgive an enemy and it's only [33:05] the two of you who experience this but [33:08] the universe sees this and the universe [33:10] records it and then what the universe [33:13] does is it implants this memory into our [33:16] imagination so that one of us like Homer [33:19] could write about it and then it becomes [33:21] part of the universal consciousness. So [33:24] the universe is almost magical in this [33:27] way and so we can choose to do good, we [33:30] can choose to do evil and we have to [33:32] remember like everything we do will have [33:35] an impact in the universe. Emanuel Khan [33:39] talks about this and he says it is a [33:40] categorical imperative and the negative [33:43] categorical imperative is everything you [33:45] do imagine that whatever you do everyone [33:48] in universe does at the same time. If [33:50] you laugh, if you smile, everyone in the [33:53] universe laughs and smiles with you. If [33:56] you get angry, everyone gets angry with [33:58] you. So ask yourself like what kind of [34:01] world do you want to live in and then [34:03] just be that world and the world will [34:06] become it. [34:07] >> Question from Jessica. Why will [34:08] Christians triumph over people with [34:10] progressive secular values I suppose in [34:13] the US? [34:14] >> Yeah. Okay, that's a [clears throat] [34:15] really good question. [34:17] So, um, right now in the United States, [34:21] the professional managorial class, and I [34:24] imagine there's a lot of us in that in [34:26] this group, okay, I'm also part of the [34:27] PMC, uh, as is Ally. Um, we're ascended, [34:32] okay? We went to the best schools. We [34:34] work really hard, really smart. Uh, [34:37] we're very cosmopolitan, open-minded. [34:39] We're constantly learning. We know we [34:41] know how to get things done. And um this [34:46] has led to a great deal of inequality. [34:51] It's led to a lot of stagn stagnant um [34:55] stagnancy. And so um the professional [35:01] measural class, the meritocracy [35:03] represents the pinnacle of enlightenment [35:07] philosophy, right? Um in the 18th [35:10] century when Latin think let legant [35:12] thinkers like Jac Rouso and Emo Kod were [35:15] writing they were really hoping for a [35:17] world like this and a world in which [35:20] we've transcended religion race and [35:23] culture and the problem though is [35:28] even though in many ways the world we're [35:31] living in marks the height of human [35:35] civilization [35:37] people are really unhappy. You know, [35:40] people feel really depressed. Uh people [35:43] feel lonely, people feel meaningless. [35:49] Um people are very very nealistic. And I [35:53] think the reason why is we are first and [35:56] foremost spiritual beings. And [35:59] enlightenment philosophy negates that. [36:03] The meritocracy negates that. It wants [36:06] us to first and foremost focus on our [36:09] material [36:11] uh needs because enlightenment thinking [36:14] what it does is it it prioritizes human [36:17] reason above human emotion. In fact, it [36:20] sees human emotion almost as as an [36:22] enemy. And I think that yeah, maybe for [36:27] the first 100 years, 20 years, that was [36:29] great because it's led to a lot of [36:31] progress. But at the same time um it's [36:35] denying our true nature. And if we deny [36:38] our true nature, we can never be we can [36:40] never be happy. So I think that [36:43] eventually and I think we're already [36:45] seeing seeing it, you're going to have a [36:47] huge backlash towards religion. The [36:50] problem is that organized religion can [36:53] be just as problematic as the world we [36:56] live in. Right? Right? So, think of the [36:57] Catholic Church during the medieval um [37:00] ages. And so, um we we have to abandon [37:06] our focus on materialism and embrace our [37:08] spirituality. The problem is how to do [37:11] so in a way that maintains our [37:14] individuality. That's a real challenge a [37:17] ahead. [37:19] Question from Raider. I think I'm [37:21] pronouncing that right. I hope I'm [37:22] pronouncing that right. predicting [37:23] economic collapse in just a few months [37:25] is pretty serious. How do you find [37:27] yourself personally preparing for this [37:29] outcome? [37:30] >> Well, first of all, I think our economy [37:32] has already collapsed. Um, I mean, you [37:36] just look at how the economy is [37:38] structured. I mean, the idea that you're [37:40] paying $17 for avocado toast. That's [37:43] just absurd. Okay. Um, try like if [37:47] you're a young entrepreneur, try hiring [37:49] other young people to do work for you. [37:51] Good luck with that, guys. Okay. [37:52] [laughter] Um, so I think we we've [37:55] already collapsed and they're they're [37:57] just hiding this from us. Um, I think [38:00] it's just narrative control. So remember [38:02] back back in the Biden uh years, it's [38:05] clear that that the American economy was [38:07] in recession. So what did they do? They [38:09] changed the definition of recession. [38:11] Okay. Uh Janet Yellen um uh just like [38:15] well no we're actually not in recession [38:17] even though actually technically the [38:19] United States was in recession. So, we [38:21] we're in a period of impaired decline, [38:25] which means basically exhaustion, which [38:28] basically means that um rather than [38:31] trying to do a good job, the bureaucrats [38:33] in Washington DC are using either fraud [38:36] or force to maintain the illusion of of [38:39] control. So first of all I would say the [38:42] economy collapsed a long long time ago [38:45] maybe um maybe even around 2009 2010 [38:49] because the fundamental roots of [38:52] economic mise was not addressed right um [38:55] in 2008 2009 the correct strategy would [38:58] have been to save the homeowners if that [39:01] were the decision of Washington DC we [39:03] would be in a different world right if [39:06] you save the homeowners then people [39:08] would have real wealth and they would um [39:11] want to protect this wealth. So they [39:12] would work hard and instead they chose [39:16] to save the people who caused the [39:19] collapse in the first place. These [39:21] people should have gone to jail. Okay. A [39:23] lot of things they do were clearly [39:25] criminal. Like calling an elderly person [39:29] who was handicapped and tricking him or [39:32] her into signing a mortgage he couldn't [39:34] he or she couldn't afford. That's [39:36] clearly criminal. That's clearly fraud. [39:39] and um they got away with it and so I [39:41] think that you know we we are in [39:45] economic collapse and um now it's really [39:49] about what do we do next was that [39:51] decision to let them get away with it [39:53] just pure corruption the fact that they [39:55] were buddies at you know Princeton Yale [39:57] you know whether it's the chair of the [39:59] Fed versus Obama or whoever was it just [40:02] because they're all part of the secret [40:03] the same secret societies and clubs or [40:05] was there a deeper reason for for that [40:07] forgiveness Because in Iceland they [40:09] jailed them. [40:10] >> It's a meritocracy. The most obvious [40:12] society today is the meritocracy. These [40:14] are people who went to the best schools [40:16] and their friends and they like the [40:20] thing about going to place at Yale and [40:22] Harvard is there are absolutely no [40:24] consequences. Okay, let me tell you a [40:27] story of like me at Yale. Okay. Um, so I [40:31] go to Yale and every freshman is offered [40:34] a job where you do nothing and you get [40:37] paid a lot of money. Okay. And most [40:38] people pick um uh work in a library. [40:42] Okay. So like what happens is like you [40:44] literally go to library and you sit [40:46] there for four hours and you do your [40:48] homework and you you get paid to do [40:50] that. Like like like Yale is like a [40:53] welfare state, guys. Okay? It's like the [40:55] biggest socialist system in the world. [40:58] And so um I took advantage of this [41:01] system by working multiple jobs. Okay. [41:02] So what I did was like no no no no. This [41:05] is like what I literally did. I got a [41:07] job in the library. Okay. And so you [41:10] just go and clock in. Then I got a job [41:14] working for the AV center, the audio [41:17] visual center because at in the evening [41:19] um a professor might show a film. So [41:21] your job was to go and show the film and [41:25] then uh take take the VHS cassette out [41:29] of the recorder. Okay. Very simple [41:30] thing. Okay. And then I also did [41:33] something called two walk which is like [41:35] you just like uh walk a uh female [41:40] student across the street. Okay. I did [41:42] all three jobs at once. All right. And [41:44] most time it wor it worked out well. But [41:47] one evening while I was doing two walk [41:50] uh I went in to open the uh projector. [41:56] Okay. I turn it on then I left to do my [41:58] two walk. I come back an hour later and [42:00] the professor is freaking out because [42:01] she's like this projector isn't working. [42:04] I'm like okay so what do you want me to [42:06] do about it? You know go fix it [42:08] yourself. It's like you're you you're [42:11] the one who's supposed to fix this for [42:13] us. Like I don't know how to fix this. I [42:15] was never trained. And like she was so [42:18] pissed. I didn't care at all. I was [42:19] like, "Well, you know, too bad, man." [42:22] You know, so she got pissed. So pissed [42:25] that she wrote a letter to the president [42:28] of Yale complaining about me. And so um [42:32] the [42:34] AV my boss who's head of the AV center [42:37] calls me into the office and he's like [42:42] um yeah so this professor says that uh [42:46] you were an and she wrote a [42:49] letter to the president of Yale [42:51] University complaining about you but I'm [42:53] sure you have a side you you have your [42:55] story. I want to hear both sides. I was [42:58] like, "There really isn't another side [42:59] to this story, man. There just isn't." [43:02] It's like, "Sorry, I can't even bother [43:04] to to like explain to you what [43:06] happened." It's like, and then he's [43:07] like, "Okay, well then you're fired." [43:08] Like, "Okay, I don't care." And that's [43:10] it, guys. Okay, that's Yale. So, like, [43:13] if you go to place like Yale, you pull [43:15] the you do the dumbest stuff ever and [43:17] you're never punished for this. So, [43:19] imagine what happens if you go work for [43:20] Wall Street and then you go work for [43:22] Washington DC. You It's the same [43:24] mentality, man. Okay, you do the dumbest [43:27] thing and you never you're never [43:28] punished because you're part of the [43:30] elite. You are the chosen, right? You [43:33] are what Plato said calls the [43:36] philosopher king. You were selected [43:39] based on your merit. You're just [43:41] superior to everyone else and therefore [43:43] you should never have to have to suffer [43:45] consequences for anything. And that's [43:47] what and that's what hap and that's [43:48] that's that's the world we live in. [43:50] Okay? You go to Washington DC, you meet [43:52] these bureaucrats guys, they're not not [43:55] smarter than you are. They're just more [43:56] privileged. They they have a sense of [43:58] self- entitlement. You go to Wall [43:59] Street, they really are not smart. It's [44:01] just like they went to the right [44:03] schools, they knew the right people, but [44:06] they think they're smarter than [44:09] we. And so therefore, they do more [44:11] stupid things than we. Okay? [44:14] >> So it's just it's tribalism in many [44:16] ways. Um, it's it's privilege. It's [44:20] blast. It's privilege. These are the [44:21] untouchables. Oh, sorry. Sorry. These [44:24] are the brahen the breman class. [44:27] >> Archer, you have a a long question. I'll [44:29] let you ask it. Where's Archer? There [44:31] you go. Amazing. It's okay. That's the [44:34] question is I I saw recently that Saudi [44:37] Arabia Pakistan and Turkey USA social [44:40] defense stuff like that and I just were [44:43] to see what you thought about it in [44:45] terms of then creating their own like [44:48] coatas and how that would uh impact [44:51] things like bash if Israel and Turkey [44:55] recently this year. [44:56] >> Yeah, that's a great question. Okay. [44:58] Yes. Um this is a huge uh development [45:01] where Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan [45:04] have signed a mutual defense treaty and [45:07] this expands the uh alliance between [45:09] Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Remember uh [45:11] Saudi Arabia and Pakistan signed a [45:13] mutual defense pact a a couple years [45:16] ago. Um and so um this is interesting [45:21] because Turkey and Israel have been [45:24] butting heads for the past few few [45:26] months and Saudi Arabia is now being [45:29] attacked by the Houthies and Saudi [45:31] Arabia is planning a offensive against [45:34] the Houthies. Um here's what I read. [45:38] Okay, like there may there may be like a [45:41] dozen possible interpretations but um my [45:44] understanding is this. [45:47] ultimately Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi [45:50] Arabia, they're all American vassel [45:52] states. And so if you go to the national [45:54] defense strategy uh of the Pentagon, the [45:57] the the strategy is very simple. Okay, [46:01] we the we the United States are going to [46:04] retreat or withdraw from being Pax [46:07] Americana, basically the last guaranter [46:11] of global security. Okay. And what that [46:15] means is we we have to defend every [46:17] region, every nation, and like screw [46:20] that because it's too expensive, it's [46:21] too hard. And instead, we're going to [46:24] use balance of power. Okay? We're going [46:26] to create situations where nation states [46:29] balance each other out. So the idea is [46:31] that in Europe, uh NATO will balance out [46:34] Russia. In East Asia, Japan will balance [46:38] out China. and in the Middle East um the [46:42] GCC and Israel will balance out Iran. [46:46] Okay? So they're trying to create [46:47] balance of uh of power. And so I see a [46:50] lot of things that are happening as part [46:53] of this larger strategy. So the alliance [46:56] between Turkey, Saudi Arabia and [46:58] Pakistan, that's one aspect of the [47:00] strategy. But also, if you've been [47:02] following the news, um um I think Kuwait [47:06] and Ban um have agreed to buy 5,000 [47:11] Patriot missiles from the United States. [47:14] Okay. And and so what's happening is [47:17] that the United States is offloading [47:21] um the defense obligation to these [47:24] nations. [47:26] And so that that's what's that's what's [47:28] happening. So I think like in a short [47:31] term uh this alliance means a [47:34] multicultural sorry a multinational [47:36] coalition against the Houthis. The [47:38] Houthies are huge problem for Saudi [47:41] Arabia. Saudi Arabia cannot defend [47:43] themselves against Houthies. So they're [47:45] trying to bring in uh Turkey. Okay. This [47:49] conflict between Turkey and Israel. It's [47:51] all theater. is that like like just ask [47:54] yourself where the oil uh um where where [47:59] Israel gets its oil. The answer is [48:01] Turkey. Okay? And as long as Turkey is [48:03] providing oil to Israel, uh they're not [48:06] going to go to war. Okay? So um so all [48:09] this is [48:12] um basically heralding Pax Judea. It's [48:15] it it's all part of the transition from [48:17] U Pax Americana Americana to Pax Juda [48:21] Judea in the Middle East. Okay. [48:23] >> Just as a followup from that, you know, [48:25] when when America and Israel attacked [48:27] Iran, it really proved that those GCC [48:30] nations were really just vassels for the [48:32] United for the US Empire. How does their [48:35] relationship the US and the Gulf [48:37] countries and the the issue of the [48:39] Houthis all you know factor in in the [48:41] larger picture for example in in in this [48:44] uh this agreement and also just the [48:45] battle against the Houthies and and Pax [48:47] Judea. [48:48] >> Okay. So the GCC was created um out of [48:51] the petro dollar system right? [48:52] >> Yeah. Um, so, uh, the Pedro system was [48:55] great for the GCC because now they could [48:59] sell their oil, um, all around the world [49:02] and not have to provide not have to [49:04] provide for their own defense. And so [49:07] that this is what's led to the rise of [49:10] the GCC. Um, they were able to e [49:13] economically progress very very quickly, [49:16] but it's all unstable because [49:20] um, what do you do about Iraq? and the [49:22] United States was like, "Don't worry, [49:23] we'll we'll we'll deal with Iran." And [49:25] really, if if that's the case, then what [49:28] the United States should have done and [49:30] what I think a lot of people um wanted [49:33] to do um is basically prop up Iraq. [49:39] Okay, does that make sense? Okay, you [49:41] you want protective GCC. It's a vital [49:44] part of your petrol system. So you prop [49:47] up Iraq as a counterbalance to Iraq [49:50] because Iran is not part of your global [49:51] economy. So you bring Iraq into your [49:53] global economy and then you create [49:54] balance of power between Iraq and Iran [49:57] and then you limit Israel. [50:00] Okay? And like as an empire this is how [50:02] you should behave of power, right? Um so [50:06] you rather than invade Iraq, you [50:11] economically develop Iraq. And during [50:14] the Clinton years, that was actually the [50:15] agreement. People forget this, but [50:17] during the Clinton years, there was [50:19] almost a side deal between Saddam [50:20] Hussein and Bill Clinton where these [50:23] American companies would go into Iraq [50:26] and get the oil for really, really [50:27] cheap. It was a great deal for the [50:29] United States. And it made a lot of [50:31] geopolitical sense because now with a [50:34] emergent Iraq, you can now balance out [50:37] Iran. The thing you don't want to do, [50:40] the last thing you ever want to do is go [50:42] invade [clears throat] Iraq because then [50:44] you create a huge problem with with [50:47] Iran. Now, Iran is a regional [50:49] superpower. Like, the last thing you [50:51] would ever do is go invade Iraq as an [50:53] empire. And you're like, well, why that [50:56] why did they invade Iraq then? All [50:58] right. Okay. And the answer is something [51:00] called the Clean Break Memo of 1996. [51:04] Clean break memo. All right. And the [51:08] idea of the clean brick memo is to [51:11] create Israel as a reg as a regional [51:13] hegeimon. Okay? Rather than create [51:16] balance of power in the Middle East with [51:19] Pax American in charge, you have Israel [51:21] emerge as the regional superpower. It's [51:24] called the clean break memo. There's [51:27] exactly one page. It was written by a [51:31] few people but two of the most prominent [51:32] were Richard Pearl and Douglas 5. Okay. [51:37] Why is this important? Because Richard [51:39] Pearl and Douglas 5 wrote the memo for [51:41] Netanyahu in 19 in 1996 u because he was [51:44] a new prime minister and he promised a a [51:47] clean break from the Oslo peace process. [51:50] Right? The Oslo peace process was about [51:53] creating regional stability. Uh it was [51:55] about creating bouts of power. It was [51:57] about bringing peace to the Middle East [51:59] so that they could trade together under [52:01] American protection. Clean Break was [52:04] saying, uh, screw that. Okay, screw the [52:09] peace process. Israel will now dominate [52:12] the Middle East by reging ch regime [52:15] change Iraq and regime change Syria. [52:18] Okay, that's that's what the clean book [52:20] memo called for. and the two one two two [52:23] authors Richard Pearl and Doug Spive [52:25] they then went on to be work in the [52:29] defense department and then with Paul [52:31] Wolitz the three Paul Wolitz DP sp and [52:35] Richard Pearl became the chief [52:36] architects of the Iraq war [52:39] and here's another really funny thing [52:41] about these two guys since 1970s the FBI [52:44] and the CIA CIA suspect suspected them [52:48] of being Israeli assets somehow how [52:51] 1970s they were flagged as Israeli [52:53] assets. They're working as congressional [52:56] staffers at this point. Okay. Um somehow [53:01] despite being flagged as Israeli assets, [53:03] they climbed the Washington bureaucracy [53:05] to the highest levels and together they [53:11] were able to [53:13] um launch a war against Iraq. And again, [53:16] this war makes no sense from an imperial [53:20] perspective. That is the most [53:22] thing you can do from an American [53:24] perspective and they still did it. [53:27] All right. Also remember at this time um [53:30] after 911 [53:32] the Americans um there there was a [53:35] conversation between Emmy Goodman and [53:37] Wesley Clark. [53:40] Have you guys seen this conversation? [53:42] Amy Goodman and Wesley Clark. [53:44] >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, [53:47] basically Amy Goodman's like, "Why are [53:49] we going into Iraq?" And Western Clark's [53:51] like, "No, actually, Amy, we're not just [53:53] going to Iraq. We're also going to go [53:55] into Libya, Syria, Lebanon, [53:59] Iran, Somalia, Sudan. In five years, [54:04] we're going to we're going to destroy [54:05] the entire Middle East." And like [54:08] imigman's like why would we do that and [54:12] like I don't know we don't know. Well if [54:15] you actually read the clean big memo it [54:17] tells you why the purpose is to create [54:20] Israel as a regional power. Okay. So [54:26] so I mean like unless you appreciate [54:29] that the entire intention all along was [54:31] to create Paka it's really hard to [54:33] understand what's going on in the Middle [54:34] East. Why the United States invade Iran? [54:38] We don't know. Even today, no one's [54:41] explained why the United States had to [54:44] go bomb Iran. Why is this war [54:48] continuing? [54:49] All right. Clearly, the United States [54:51] cannot defeat Iran in a war. Clearly, [54:54] this having massive strain on the global [54:56] economy. So, why hasn't the United [54:58] States sued for peace? [55:01] Okay. [55:04] from an American empirical perspective [55:07] that none of this makes any sense and [55:09] the only explanation we have is a clean [55:11] brick memo of 1986. If you actually go [55:14] read it u and you analyze what's [55:17] happened the past 20 years, it all lines [55:19] up. What they proposed in 1986 is what [55:21] we're doing uh what what what the [55:23] American Empire has been doing for the [55:25] past 20 years. [55:25] >> How do we keep the thread for 30 years? [55:28] Is it it's like a relay? people passing [55:30] the baton, people retire, people die in [55:33] this in this world. I mean, are these uh [55:36] architects still with us? I mean, [55:38] obviously Netanyahu is, but you know, [55:40] how do they keep this plan alive for [55:43] this long? [55:44] >> So, if you just look at points of [55:47] convergence, that'll give you the [55:49] answer. Okay, so let let me give you [55:51] some certain points of convergence. [55:53] Okay, [55:54] these three people, Paul Wolitz, Richard [55:57] Pearl, and there's five 1970s they were [56:02] working for a US senator called Henry [56:06] Scoop Jackson. Okay, he's very famous [56:09] because well, first of all, he's a very [56:11] powerful senator, but also he he's [56:13] considered a cold warrior. Uh meaning he [56:16] wanted America to win the Cold War. Now, [56:19] it's interesting because there's [56:21] something that he was obsessed about. He [56:24] was obsessed about forcing the Soviet [56:27] Union to allow Jews to immigrate to [56:30] Israel. That was his big thing. He [56:33] really cared about that. It's like [56:35] that's kind of weird like you're a US [56:37] senator and like you know your your [56:39] passion, your um your life mission is to [56:43] force the Soviet Union to allow Jews the [56:45] freedom to immigrate to Israel. like why [56:48] do you care? And then you know uh like [56:51] they interviewed Henry uh Jackson. He's [56:54] like well it's because of this. It's [56:56] because first of all I was in Nuremberg [57:00] as a prosecutor and I felt sorry for the [57:03] Jews because of what happened to them in [57:05] the labor camps. [57:07] Also, my my my um mother was a widow and [57:12] she worked as a house cleaner for Jews [57:15] and the Jews were really nice to her. [57:17] So, they so she she in her will wrote [57:21] that I must now look after the Jews, [57:24] right? And and um and and he's like, [57:28] "Well, I've always had lots of Jewish [57:30] friends." Okay, so it's just really [57:33] weird. But someone he was really close [57:36] with [57:38] um is a man named Rebeersonen. [57:41] Rebeersonen. And Rebeersonen is head of [57:44] something called Habat Lubovich. Okay. [57:46] So just remember the name Reben, Habat [57:49] Lubovich. That's one point of [57:51] convergence. Okay. These three guys who [57:54] orchestrated the Iraq war, Paul Wolitz, [57:57] Richard Pearl, and his wife, all worked [57:59] for Henry Jackson, who was obsessed with [58:02] forcing Soviet Union to allow Jews to [58:04] immigrate to Israel. And um Reson was [58:09] friends with [58:11] um Henry Jackson. Okay, that's one point [58:13] of convergence. Another point of [58:15] convergence is um [58:18] Mark Zuckerberg. [58:21] Mark Zuckerberg in an interview said, [58:24] "So, um, when, [58:27] uh, my parents had three daughters [58:30] before they had me, and they really [58:33] wanted a son, so they went to see [58:36] Reberson." [58:39] And [58:42] Reberson gave [58:45] um [58:47] um a blessing to my parents to have a [58:50] son. And then after this blessing [58:52] happened, they had me. Okay, now you [58:56] hear the story and again guys, you can [58:58] fact check this, okay? You can like on [58:59] your phone just Google this and and this [59:02] is what the these are the exact words [59:04] from Mark Zuckerberg. And you hear the [59:06] story, it's like that doesn't mean [59:07] anything. Actually, if you read the [59:09] Bible, it means a lot. You know the [59:11] Bible, it's it's actually telling you a [59:14] lot because [59:16] um remember there are three instances. [59:18] There actually a lot of instance but [59:19] there are three major instances where [59:22] a parents really wanted a son so that [59:25] they beg God for a son. Okay. So the [59:28] first instant of course is Abraham and [59:31] Sarah um they could Sarah couldn't [59:34] conceive but then God blessed them and [59:37] gave them Isaac. Okay. And and then what [59:39] did I Abraham do? Abraham tried to [59:41] sacrifice Isaac to God and God has sent [59:43] an angel to stop Abraham from doing so. [59:46] Okay. And the idea here is if God [59:49] blesses you with a son, that son belongs [59:52] to God, not to you. All right? Then you [59:55] have the story of Samuel who who's a [59:57] major prophet. Um and Samuel's parents [60:00] couldn't conceive either. So they went [60:01] to the head priest Eli and says, "Could [60:04] you please help us?" Eli says, "God will [60:06] give you a child, but this child will [60:08] now be God's servant." [60:11] Okay? And so that becomes um [60:16] um Samuel and Samuel is a prophet who [60:20] anoints David as a king of the [60:22] Israelites. Okay, again if you know the [60:24] Bible like like this is all pretty basic [60:27] stuff. And the and the last is um John [60:30] the Baptist whose per whose father was [60:33] the high priest and um they begged uh [60:37] God and then God says okay we'll give [60:41] you a son but this son his mission is to [60:44] announce the coming of the Messiah. Okay [60:47] so [laughter] [60:49] Mark Zuckerberg when he tells you the [60:51] story you think it doesn't mean anything [60:53] but actually means a lot. You know the [60:54] Bible it's coded language guys. Okay. [60:56] Now, why is this interesting? Well, [60:58] because Mark Zuckerberg um founded [61:02] Facebook and he became a billionaire. [61:05] But you're like, "Okay, well, good for [61:07] him." Look, guys, it's not that simple. [61:10] All right. I went to Y 1995. First thing [61:13] that happened when you get into into the [61:15] Yo camp is they give you something [61:16] called Facebook. [61:18] And the Facebook are the pictures and [61:21] personal information of the entire [61:23] freshman class. And we were obsessed [61:26] with it because like you know you're [61:28] horny teenagers. What do you do? Well, [61:30] you go over and you like, you know, look [61:32] for like really hot guys and girls. [61:34] Okay, that's all we ever cared about [61:36] through the entire year. All right, so [61:39] imagine the potential if you were able [61:42] to digitize this and allow these people [61:45] to interact with each other. Well, you [61:46] couldn't do that because privacy issues, [61:49] right? Privacy issues. like you know if [61:52] you're a really hard girl you don't want [61:53] guys randomly like you know messaging [61:55] you on on a digital service so the [61:58] university would not allow you to do [62:00] that okay [62:03] why would Harvard let Mark Zuckerberg do [62:06] that [62:08] okay not only that but Harvard allowed [62:11] Mark Zuckerberg to connect the Harvard [62:13] Facebook with other universities imagine [62:15] the pH if you're at UMass Amherst or [62:19] Boston College you can now meet really [62:22] hot Harvard girls and guys, right? [62:27] Like like why would Harvard do that? [62:30] Well, there's a reason why. No, I'm [62:32] sorry. This is not the reason why, but [62:34] there's a connection here. Freshman [62:36] year, Mark Zuckerberg was a member of [62:41] Harvard Habad. [62:43] Okay. And Harvard Habad was started in [62:46] 1987 and is part of the Habat Lubich [62:49] movement. Remember it was Rear Sners who [62:51] blessed Mark Zuckerberg. [62:54] Also members of Harvard Habad were Nalie [62:58] Portman and Jared Kushner. [63:01] The faculty advisor for Harvard Habad uh [63:06] was Alan Dersitz. [63:09] Also one of the major patrons of Harvard [63:12] Habad was Larry Summers then president [63:15] of Harvard University. [63:18] Larry Summers, [63:20] Alan Deritz, Natalie Portman, Jared [63:23] Kushner was friends with Mark [63:25] Zuckerberg. [63:28] Okay. Again, I I don't know what's going [63:30] on. All right. I'm I'm just I'm just [63:32] trying to draw these points of [63:33] convergence, [63:35] right? Like, huh, that's interesting. [63:39] Okay. All right. [63:42] Um, another point of convergence is [63:45] 2016, Donald Trump is running for [63:47] president. Who's running Donald Trump's [63:50] social media campaign? Jared Kushner. [63:52] Who's head of Facebook? Mark Ziggleberg. [63:55] Guys, you guys remember the uh Cambridge [63:58] Analytica scandal 2016 for somehow [64:02] they're able to access 50 million [64:05] Facebook users metadata and they're able [64:09] to design [64:11] um target advertising to sway their [64:14] political opinion [64:16] and Mark Zuckerberg will apologize like [64:19] I'm really sorry. Okay. But again, [64:22] really strange connection where um [64:25] Harvard allows Mark Zuckerberg to create [64:26] Facebook and become a billionaire. Uh [64:30] Jared Kushner is head of Trump's social [64:34] media [64:36] um outreach and Mar's, [64:39] you know, head of Facebook. Really [64:41] strange coincidence, right? I I I I [64:44] don't know what what's happening. These [64:46] are just points of convergence. One [64:47] final point point of convergence. [64:49] There's billions of points of [64:50] convergence around this guy Re. But but [64:52] here's but here here here's one final [64:54] point of convergence. Um Benjamin [64:57] Netanyahu 1980s he is UN ambassador [65:02] um Israel UN ambassador. Okay. And he's [65:06] running for politics. And so he goes to [65:09] Rebrison and says will you give me your [65:11] blessing? And Reberson is like yes I [65:13] will give you my my my my my blessing. [65:16] Um, at this time [65:19] there's other people who ask for his [65:20] blessing. [65:22] At this time there are two people who go [65:24] to uh Rebrison [65:27] and um they're about to get married and [65:30] so they ask for his blessing. And guys, [65:33] this is on YouTube. Okay, these two [65:36] people are Sheldon and Miriam Adlesen. [65:41] Who are these two people? the ones who [65:43] financed bankrolled Netanyahu's [65:46] political career in Israel. Okay. And [65:49] who else did um Shan Aden bankroll? [65:52] Donald Trump. 2016 2020 Shen was the [65:56] major donor to Donald Trump's proven [65:59] campaign. [66:03] These are all points of convergence. [66:05] Make what you will um of it. [66:09] Um, one final point is there's a video [66:13] of on YouTube of Netanyahu in 1991 [66:17] going to rebase SN. And there's a lot of [66:21] meetings between the two and in this [66:24] meeting um, Rebrison asked Nahu a [66:28] question. The question is this, [66:31] when is the Messiah coming? [66:34] And Nahu is soon. and repres like let's [66:40] hurry it up guys. All right, let's hurry [66:42] it up. The guy station dies in 1994. [66:45] He's dead. Okay. [66:48] Um, so Hab Lubberidge, it's part of the [66:50] Hidic uh Jewish uh system. And um the [66:56] thing about uh Judaism is it's all [66:59] family dynasties. So if you're rabbi, [67:01] your son inherits it. Okay? Um, and if [67:04] you don't have a son, then you adopt a [67:06] son and he inherits it. But, but, but [67:08] the point is you have to pass it on to [67:10] someone otherwise the dynasty dies out. [67:14] Guys, go to Habet Lubich website. Okay, [67:17] there is no leader now and you like ask [67:21] who is Rebeersonen and they will tell [67:24] you he is the seventh and final [67:28] Rebe of Habalich. [67:31] What the hell is that? [67:33] final rebe. [67:36] What that mean? Well, you can speculate. [67:39] What what they're really saying is [67:41] the Messiah is coming. That's why he's [67:44] the final. You don't need a reb. The [67:46] Messiah is coming. Right. [67:48] >> In your lectures, you talk about how in [67:50] the coming years, religiosity will [67:52] increase. And in the case of America, a [67:54] rise in Christianity will be almost [67:56] necessary for people to come together [67:57] and survive what's coming. How should [67:59] people or groups of people that believe [68:01] in a more mystic or platonic view of the [68:03] world maybe also in line with thinkers [68:05] like Kant or Hegel or even Dante? How [68:08] should one move in one if one holds [68:09] these beliefs as opposed to a more [68:11] fundamentalist Christianity and how [68:13] should one go about community building [68:15] in this case? [68:16] >> Um yeah that's a great question and uh [68:18] you're absolutely right in like in the [68:21] future the struggle is not longer [68:23] between materialism and spirituality. [68:26] It's really one between organized [68:28] religion and free spirituality. [68:32] Um, and I'm not a big fan of organized [68:34] religion. Um, so I really do hope free [68:37] spirituality wins out. And I think the [68:40] re the like the way that it it will win [68:42] out is if we get as many people as [68:46] possible to engage in deep spiritual [68:49] practice. Um and then what will happen [68:52] is that the more you engage in deep [68:56] spiritual practice, the more that people [69:00] will congregate towards you. Uh because [69:05] that's how the universe works. Uh the [69:07] universe is first and foremost [69:09] consciousness and like attracts like. So [69:13] if you are engaged in deep spiritual [69:15] practice then um others will come to you [69:19] and you'll be able to move towards [69:21] others but also the people around you [69:23] will be influenced by your deep [69:25] spiritual practice even though they [69:26] themselves may not know it. Um so the [69:30] trick is to engage in spiritual alchemy [69:33] to transform yourself in a way that [69:36] allows others to come to you. Okay. I [69:41] have a two-part question if that's okay. [69:43] Um, in some of your lectures or [69:44] podcasts, I've heard that uh you stating [69:47] you don't believe in God, but then most [69:49] recently in the Solomon podcast, you [69:51] were saying when you were wandering [69:53] around in the snow cold, you got a sign [69:56] from God to keep it pushing and keep [69:59] thriving. And my question is like if [70:02] you're comfortable sharing, what is your [70:04] relationship with God or the monad? Um, [70:07] and how do you see this fabric of [70:10] reality? Do you have a more of a Gnostic [70:14] kind of like this world was made by a [70:16] demi urge and I need to go past that or [70:20] do you mind expanding on your um I guess [70:24] your relationship with God and how you [70:25] view this world? [70:26] >> Yeah. Okay. So I mean I'm a product of [70:30] meritocracy [70:32] and so I've been indoctrinated to [70:35] believe that the world is is material [70:38] and um for the longest time I resisted [70:43] or had contempt for the idea of God and [70:49] um that made me a very unhappy person, a [70:52] very depressed person. And it was not [70:54] obvious to me then, but like looking [70:56] back at my life, I recognized that by [70:59] denying my own uh divine consciousness, [71:03] by denying my own spirituality, I make [71:06] myself a very unhappy person. Uh because [71:08] it's not denying who you are. [71:11] And um recently I have discovered [71:16] um God. But the way I define God is [71:18] going to be different from how others [71:20] define God. U because I see God as the [71:23] universe, the monad. So both the being [71:26] and the becoming, the um nothing and the [71:30] everything. Okay? So um so I see myself [71:34] as part of God, but God is in me. And [71:37] what I've really um come to terms with [71:41] these [71:42] uh past few months is I'm almost now [71:46] like a messenger for the Monad um or a [71:50] spark. Um and this something that I [71:53] wouldn't have come to terms with maybe a [71:56] year ago or two or two years ago uh [71:59] because [72:00] um I [72:02] really prize my own individuality like I [72:05] want my freedom. I don't be a messenger [72:07] for any force. Uh but um given the fact [72:12] that [72:13] um my rise on social media has been [72:17] spectacular, given the fact that um I've [72:20] been able to impact or influence so many [72:24] people and given the fact that we're [72:26] sitting here in this room and so so many [72:28] of you have come a long way to be here. [72:31] um I can't explain it except that this [72:34] is the will of the universe that this is [72:36] the um cosmic force that has brought us [72:39] uh together. So um I I believe that [72:43] there's a plan there's an intention um [72:46] at work on the question of the demi [72:48] urge. I don't go into that because I [72:51] don't think the Bible is a work of God. [72:54] I mean the vine comedy [72:56] Homer the Iliad that's a work of God but [72:59] the Bible it's um a collection of texts [73:03] that have been pluggized [73:05] and if you uh take it literally then [73:08] that gets you in in a lot of trouble. Um [73:11] so I think the demi urge is an [73:13] explanation or attempt to reconcile the [73:16] a lot of the contradictions in the Bible [73:20] but I don't buy into the Bible in the [73:22] first place. So I I don't accept the ex [73:24] the existence of the demiurge. I don't [73:26] really accept the ex existence of of [73:28] Satan. Um I don't think there's evil in [73:31] the world. I I think the evil is the [73:33] things that we imagine [73:35] um and to to explain certain things that [73:39] we we do. But I think um the monad the [73:45] universe is all forgiving. It's all [73:47] love. It's all generous. And we have [73:50] complete agency to create the world that [73:52] we want with our imagination. Now this [73:55] leads to a lot of problems. Okay. As we [73:58] can see from the world that that we live [74:00] in. Um but it also um gives me [74:03] tremendous hope. [74:05] >> Just very quick followup. How are you [74:06] able to retain so much information if [74:10] we're talking about right now like maybe [74:14] esoteric or religious things and then [74:15] all of a sudden we talk about [74:16] geopolitics? How are you able to bring [74:19] authors, dates, years [74:22] so quickly off the top of your head? [74:24] >> Yeah. So, um something that I do [74:28] um that's very important and something [74:30] something that you're taught not to do [74:32] in school and almost you're taught [74:34] you're made not able to use it. It's [74:36] it's something called the memory palace [74:37] system. Okay? And the idea of the memory [74:40] palace system is rather than focus on on [74:42] the facts, focus on the story. Okay, the [74:48] grand structure don't worry also if this [74:52] grand structure is factually correct or [74:55] not but try to construct the paradigm, [74:57] try to construct the narrative. And then [75:00] what you do is then you organize the [75:03] facts to fit the narrative. And if you [75:07] do it that way, it's actually pretty [75:08] easy to recogn to remember the facts. [75:10] But if you insist on just memorizing the [75:13] facts for themselves, [75:16] um then it's very hard to remember the [75:18] facts. But also it confuses you. Okay? [75:22] And that's the system that we have [75:23] today. Uh academics, scholars, [75:27] universities are just completely useless [75:29] because they're too focused on the facts [75:31] and not enough on like the whole [75:33] picture, on the whole story. So So when [75:37] I do research, I'm interested in like [75:38] the story. I'm interested like you know [75:41] how does one thing lead to the next and [75:44] I'm not not focused on the facts [75:47] themselves when you do that then the [75:49] facts begin to [75:52] congregate naturally in a place that is [75:54] pretty easy to remember [75:57] >> right [75:58] >> I wanted to go to a related question on [76:00] like spirituality when in the Odyssey [76:02] you talked about the the soul the spirit [76:04] and the mind when they're all [76:05] disconnected such in Penelopey with [76:08] Telmicus and Adysius how when they're [76:11] all disconnected that it led to [76:13] depression or paralyzation of all three [76:16] uh people in it. Um I was just wanted [76:19] the clarification between what the [76:20] difference you meant between the soul [76:22] and the spirit because I felt those were [76:23] the very similar or the same I guess. [76:27] >> Yeah. Okay. So I think the best way to [76:29] understand this is like our [76:30] consciousness exists on infinite [76:32] dimensions [76:33] and it's really where do we put our [76:36] focus and if you just put your focus on [76:39] the body that could come at the [76:41] detriment of the um soul and the spirit. [76:46] Okay? So imagine like the soul is maybe [76:49] the astral body, the spirit is the [76:52] connection to the universe. Um, and so [76:57] you're a happy person when all three [77:00] align together. And all three align [77:03] together when you focus on your love and [77:06] your purpose. Um, and um, that's the [77:11] idea. [77:12] >> Yeah. [77:13] >> You often talk about um, your years in [77:16] between Yale and getting a family or [77:20] some of your hardest years, your darkest [77:21] years. Um I think often you've used the [77:23] word depression and and similar things. [77:25] So um I know amongst that you mentioned [77:28] that a desire for creating a family [77:30] unconditional love. Some of the you know [77:32] top concepts in the divine comedy were [77:35] what allowed you to basically manifest [77:37] and attract that. So my question is was [77:39] there a switch? Um what what happened? [77:43] How did you get from that deep darkness [77:45] to the next step of desire for [77:47] unconditional love and family to then [77:49] actually be able to physically, you [77:51] know, obtain that or was it time that [77:54] went by? [77:55] >> Okay, so looking back, [77:58] I think a lot of the issue is I went to [78:02] Yale and Yale is an MK ultra system. So [78:09] what what I mean by that is Yale takes [78:13] young sensitive people and puts them in [78:16] an environment that is very high [78:18] pressure. So it's traumatic and this is [78:20] intentional because if that's the case [78:22] they you can implant certain ideologies [78:26] certain uh values into this person and [78:29] this person become and this becomes so [78:31] subconscious [78:33] that um it almost consumes the entire [78:37] soul of this person. And one of the um [78:42] really repugnant values [78:45] of a place like Yale is achievement at [78:49] all costs. [78:50] Like you could be a millionaire, but [78:53] that's not enough. You have to be a [78:54] billionaire. You constantly have to rise [78:57] and rise and there's really no purpose [79:02] in that. And that and that's why we live [79:04] in such a [79:07] shallow vacuous society. think something [79:09] like Obama, right? Barack Obama, I [79:12] think, is one of the um best examples of [79:16] where the meritocracy has failed society [79:19] because I mean he had a talent to become [79:23] president, but he didn't know why he [79:27] wanted to become president. Like like [79:28] like what are you trying to do? What's [79:30] your purpose? But but the America [79:34] doesn't care [79:36] and all it cares cares about is [79:38] achievement. And so [79:41] um [79:42] I struggled because that MK ultra [79:47] programming [79:48] and my soul were in closely with each [79:51] other. Okay. So I wanted to achieve but [79:55] not at the cost of my soul. And so [79:59] um I floundered through through society. [80:04] Um I was talented, I was very smart, but [80:08] I didn't want to make the sacrifices [80:10] necessary in order to truly succeed. Um [80:16] I want for example [80:19] when I was working for for United [80:20] Nations in Afghanistan, it was pretty [80:23] easy to make a lot of money. But I knew [80:25] that [80:27] um you were stealing from poor Afghans [80:30] because that international aid money was [80:32] directed at feeding them. But like [80:34] instead we international civil servants [80:37] were taking this money and going to [80:38] fivestar restaurants eating sushi in [80:40] cabal. They literally flew in sushi into [80:44] cabal when you have a nation of starving [80:46] people. It's just the most [80:47] thing. So I lasted a few months and I [80:50] had to quit. Um, I worked as a [80:53] journalist and if you want to succeed as [80:55] a journalist, you have to write things [80:56] that um, sell and I don't want to do [80:59] that. I want to write things that were [81:01] truthful. So, there's this conflict [81:03] between my MK Ultra programming and my [81:07] soul and I made a decision that I needed [81:11] to get rid of this MK Ultra programming. [81:13] And so I spent years just [81:17] engaging in activities that really [81:22] liberated uh myself from MK Ultra [81:24] programming. And one of these things and [81:26] it's really interesting is semic comedy. [81:30] Semic comedy. It it's it's almost like [81:34] um if you actually get in front of a [81:37] stage and you learn to tell jokes [81:41] because jokes is really about exposing [81:43] yourself, proving you're vulnerable [81:45] that really begins to disrupt your MK [81:48] programming. Is there any success is is [81:50] there any successful comedian who's like [81:51] a like an Ivy League graduate in any [81:54] >> Conan O'Brien? [81:56] >> Is he a good comic? [81:57] >> Yeah. [81:58] >> Okay. But I'm saying like, you know, [81:59] these military colleges, technical [82:01] collegologist, and Ivory League are not [82:02] the same thing. Like the the Ivy League [82:04] like the way that they do humanities [82:06] education, it really does brainwash you [82:08] in in a certain way. Um, yeah. So, I [82:11] would say some comedy. Um, and I would [82:14] say also like things like Brazilian [82:15] jiu-jitsu. [82:17] Um, because the thing about Brazilian [82:19] jiu-jitsu is that it really humbles you. [82:21] It really grounds you. Um, skydiving. [82:24] Yeah. But also like moving yourself out [82:26] of your comfort zone [82:28] um is something that really will help [82:30] you uh liberate your soul. [82:34] >> Okay. [82:34] >> I have a geopolitics questions. Um so uh [82:38] how do uh want to hear your perspectives [82:40] on the outcome of uh coming November uh [82:42] midterm election and um when would the [82:46] uh ground invasion on Iran by either [82:50] Israel or America would do given that [82:53] the low approving rating um would Trump [82:56] try to switch the whole uh game before [82:59] the election by just invading that or [83:02] will he just wait out until whatever the [83:04] outcome comes out he would uh pursue the [83:08] final I guess battle uh after the [83:11] election. [83:11] >> Okay. So, I don't think the midterm [83:14] elections matter. I I I know it's a [83:16] strange thing, but I I don't think they [83:18] actually matters in the grand scheme of [83:20] things. It's possible Democrats take the [83:23] House, but they won't take the Senate. [83:24] It's also possible uh the Democrats [83:27] start impeachment hearings against [83:29] Trump, but all this is theater. All this [83:32] is just to like cover your ass. Uh [83:35] because the thing that like they don't [83:37] want to happen is a vote on the war. [83:41] Okay, that so like uh go back to uh 2003 [83:45] the Iraq war. Congress approved of the [83:49] war. Congress authorized the war and it [83:52] really [83:54] um destroyed many political careers, [83:57] right? Because you and now on the record [83:58] supporting the war and they all support [84:00] the war and so they don't want to be in [84:02] that situation again. They don't want to [84:04] be a situation where they're they are [84:06] supporting the war, but at the same [84:08] time, they're stuck with the war. Okay. [84:11] So, I think that [clears throat] it's [84:13] possible that the Democrats win, but [84:16] it'll just be theater. Um, it won't [84:19] really matter for the war. Okay. The [84:23] grand invasion, I think it's already [84:25] happening. I think you already have [84:26] special forces on the ground. Um, you [84:30] also have MSAD on the ground and I think [84:33] that the ground invasion [84:35] will happen after the midterms. Um, [84:40] right now they're looking at inserting [84:42] special forces into Pax Mountain or [84:45] taking over one of the islands, but um, [84:48] no matter what happens, it's going to be [84:49] pretty stupid. I I mean like I sort of [84:52] given up on trying to figure out what's [84:53] happening because like you never know [84:54] what I come up with. They do something [84:56] even more stupid than I could possibly [84:59] imagine. [85:01] Okay. Like this war is just a complete [85:02] dumpster fire. It's it's it's it's like [85:06] if you if like you told me um a year ago [85:10] like Trump would just be tackering every [85:13] week, right? like, okay, on [85:16] on Monday on Friday, it's like, I'm [85:19] going to bomb Iran back to the stone [85:22] age. On Monday, it's like, oh, you know [85:23] what? We're just we're friends. It's [85:25] it's like this so stupid. [85:27] >> But is he is he manipulating the stock [85:29] market? Is that why he's doing it? [85:30] That's the theory is that he's he's just [85:32] playing the the markets by making these [85:34] announcements and then retracting them. [85:36] >> Well, certainly people are benefiting [85:38] from this. Okay. But I think Trump um [85:41] you know they they say it's chaos chaos [85:42] magic. Okay. Chaos magic which is like [85:47] how do you get the American people to [85:51] tolerate [85:52] a war [85:55] um that is extremely unpopular that has [85:59] no purpose [86:01] and which is hurting America very badly [86:05] or you distract them. Okay. It's it's [86:08] it's almost like chaos magic, right? [86:11] Like just and like like just the idea [86:14] that there are no protests on the [86:16] streets and the the Democratic party is [86:19] not coming out and saying this word is [86:21] stupid like like the level opposition in [86:24] 2003 was intense. Okay, if you go back [86:26] to 2003 [86:28] like like tens of thousands of people [86:30] marching on the streets, okay, protest [86:32] everywhere. Nothing today. You have [86:34] nothing today. Even though this war is [86:37] much more detrimental to the world than [86:40] the Iraq war and pe people like Tucker [86:42] Carlson look back and go I was for the [86:44] Iraq war now I regret that or I was [86:46] always against the Iraq war and I just [86:48] don't think that's going to happen in 20 [86:50] years about the Iran war that people [86:52] will say I took a stand against the Iran [86:54] war when when it was happening. It [86:56] doesn't seem yeah to your point that [86:57] people are doing that people have [86:59] blocked it out out of their minds. It's [87:01] really strange. This is one of the most [87:03] consequential wars in our lifetimes and [87:06] people are not processing it, right? [87:09] That's Trump's chaos magic. [87:11] >> Uh, hi. So, I just want to say thank you [87:14] for visiting us here in LA and also [87:17] thank you for publishing your lectures [87:18] online. Uh, for me personally, they've [87:20] really helped me to kind of have a [87:22] different perspective towards the the [87:24] study of history. Um so I come from a a [87:28] background where uh higher education was [87:33] looked down on very severely critical [87:35] thinking and uh recently I just got [87:38] admitted to an Ivy League uh institution [87:41] and obviously you know go going from [87:44] knowing nothing about the world into an [87:46] opportunity to engage with the world uh [87:49] uh more thoroughly. um from what you [87:52] have said here tonight or or this today [87:55] um specifically the things that you've [87:58] discussed occurring at Yale uh by the [88:01] way I I got into Yale ironically [88:03] um [88:04] >> recent what yeah [88:07] um my question is what advice would you [88:10] give for for someone like me and my [88:12] circumstances to guard against uh as [88:16] well as uh what what thing would you uh [88:18] advise for me to preserve as that I [88:21] engage in, you know, elite uh academia [88:24] vibe. [88:27] [sighs] [88:28] >> Wow. [88:30] Okay. Well, I I have three children and [88:33] none of them speak English. It's kind of [88:36] weird. Uh my son Chris, who's eight, [88:39] he's he he's with me. Um and we're going [88:43] around the United States. Uh this is our [88:45] first stop, but we'll we're going to New [88:46] York next week. He doesn't speak [88:49] English. And that's kind of weird [88:51] because like uh in China every parent [88:56] wants their child to [88:59] um learn English and I speak English. So [89:02] um why am I not teaching my child um [89:06] English [89:07] and not only that but like we don't even [89:10] want our child children in school? Um, [89:14] and [89:16] I mean having someone who went to Yale [89:19] and having and like having worked in [89:20] education for all my life, my um my [89:24] conclusion is [89:26] school makes you stupid. [89:28] And the more school you do, the more [89:31] stupid you become. Okay? And this is [89:33] weird. So, so let me explain what I [89:35] mean. What I mean is I think that [89:38] [clears throat] [89:41] left by left our own devices we're [89:43] pretty smart because we're intuitive. We [89:45] have a connection to the um monad. We [89:48] have a connection to the vine. And left [89:51] our own devices we can learn anything. [89:54] We can be anyone be anything. We are [89:57] unlimited potential. Left to our own [89:59] devices. [90:02] When we go to school, [90:04] um the point of school is not education. [90:06] It is indoctrination [90:08] and they are trying to make you think in [90:12] a very rigid way. If you don't do what [90:16] they tell you, they literally drug you [90:18] up. Okay? They literally do that. Uh [90:21] they force boys to take rolin. Um, you [90:25] know, it's so absurd like now like if [90:29] you just as a young boy or a young girl, [90:31] you raise your hand, ask a question, the [90:33] teacher thinks you're disruptive, sends [90:35] you as a psychiatrist who did this, who [90:37] then prescribes rolin. Okay, it's [90:40] completely out of control. Um, and the [90:44] meritocracy is a filtration system. So [90:47] anyone with any anyone with any [90:48] curiosity, anyone with any uh sense of [90:53] rebellion is filtered out of the system. [90:59] And so those who go to to Ivy League are [91:02] those who are the most willing [91:07] to [91:10] uh please authority, the most willing to [91:13] be co-opted by the system. You go to [91:15] every league and for for those four [91:17] years it is just mesmerizing the wealth [91:20] at Yale uh the prestige [91:24] the um limit limitless opportunities and [91:27] it's almost disorientating and it's [91:30] designed that way because it it's meant [91:31] to traumatize you so that they can [91:34] implant certain ideas into you and um [91:41] then they have you controlled. Okay. So, [91:43] think of think of Barack Obama in 2008. [91:45] He promised hope and change [91:48] and he promised a revolution of sorts, [91:51] right? He had this huge movement behind [91:55] him. comes into office and what he does [91:59] is he appoints into office Larry [92:03] Summers, [92:04] um Tim Gner, [92:07] um [92:08] um Rob Rubin, Bob Rubin, the people who [92:11] caused this mess in the first place. And [92:15] why did he do that? It's just his [92:17] programming. Okay, he got perceived [92:21] of a world in which the Ivy Leagueers [92:26] are not in charge. Okay, he thinks it is [92:29] right and proper that only Harvard and [92:33] Yale people control the world even [92:35] though the evidence suggests like they [92:37] are incompetent. He can't perceive that. [92:41] Um so [92:44] um a place like you Harvard it's really [92:46] it's a cave you know Plato's cave is a [92:49] cave it teaches you the beauty the [92:53] seductiveness of the illusion but it's [92:56] all just an illusion so I don't want any [92:58] of my kids to go to the Ivy League I [93:01] don't want any of my kids even to go to [93:03] school I just want them to be spirits I [93:06] just want them to be people who are [93:10] connected to the divine. And my advice [93:15] to you is [93:17] how do you avoid the trap? [93:21] Um, and the answer is well, the moment [93:27] they you they accept you, you're kind of [93:29] trapped, right? Because think of think [93:34] of all the hurdles you have to go [93:37] through to apply to Yale, right? It's a [93:41] really cumbersome process. It's probably [93:44] the most complicated [93:46] application process you'll ever have in [93:49] your life. And the idea that you've sunk [93:51] so much into it and you're like, you [93:53] know what, um, I now know Yale is [93:57] terrible. I won't go to Yale. It's not [93:58] going to happen. Okay? you your your [94:01] your mind is like, well, I know Y is [94:03] terrible, but I'll be the exception, [94:05] okay? I'll go to Yale and I'll escape [94:07] the MK Ultra programming they have ready [94:09] for me. I'm the exception. Honestly, if [94:14] I had to go back in time at age 18 and [94:18] knowing like what Yale is, I would have [94:21] still gone to Yale. [94:23] But I I I but I would also know I've got [94:27] 10 20 years of Anna suffering um ahead [94:32] of me. Okay. Because having the Yale [94:36] education and then trying to remove the [94:39] MK ultra ring from my um uh system, it [94:44] really benefited me in the end. Um it [94:47] really freed me. Um, so, [94:50] um, [94:52] um, I think it was a worthwhile process. [94:54] It's just like really painful. Um, and I [94:58] don't want my children to go through [94:58] that process. [95:00] >> Um, I had a geopolitical question about [95:03] something you said earlier. I didn't [95:05] quite understand when you were talking [95:06] about how I think you said in 1971 they [95:11] chose to separate the US dollar from the [95:13] gold and how that led to the problems [95:15] that we have now because they tied it to [95:18] like the oil and and the manufacturing [95:20] in China and stuff. But does that mean [95:22] that like if they change it to where the [95:25] dollar is connected to gold again or [95:27] some other mineral or like metal, would [95:29] that fix things in the financial part? [95:31] >> Yeah, that's a great question. Okay. So, [95:34] um the problem is the Euro dollar [95:37] system. Okay. The Euro dollar system all [95:39] it means is US dollars that are outside [95:42] the US economy and are in the global [95:44] economy. Okay. There are certain [95:47] problems with this system. Number one is [95:48] we have no idea how much EUR dollar [95:51] there is. Okay. But it's probably a lot. [95:54] Number one. Number two is a lot of these [95:57] Euro dollars again US dollars outside [95:59] the US economy are counterfeit. they're [96:02] fake. Um, and so how do you build a [96:08] system [96:09] uh that reestablishes [clears throat] [96:11] the gold standard? The answer is you [96:13] can't because you don't know how much US [96:16] dollars are actually flo floating [96:18] around. So the only solution then is to [96:22] at the end of the day burn down the US [96:24] economy. [96:28] >> That's like literally what they have in [96:30] planned. I I I want us to be clear about [96:32] what what money is. Okay? If I'm the [96:35] elite and what I want to do is basically [96:40] make you work for me. Okay? So, for [96:42] example, I want to build a house, but [96:45] I'm too lazy. I don't want to build a [96:46] house myself, right? So, what do I do? [96:49] Well, I get others to work for me. And [96:53] to solve this problem, um, historically, [96:56] there have been different solutions. [96:57] Okay? The first solution, of course, is [96:59] slavery. So I just go and say you know [97:01] like if you don't work for me I'll come [97:03] kill you. Okay. Um but [97:07] um a better solution is to use money. [97:12] Okay. And so I give you money and then [97:14] you come work for me. Okay. It's the [97:17] same system because because what what [97:19] I'm doing is I'm extracting your energy. [97:23] Okay. So money is a mechanism to extract [97:28] um your energy. Okay. The reason why you [97:31] agree to your energy being extracted is [97:33] you can then take this money I given you [97:35] and extract the energy of of other [97:37] people as well. Okay? Does that make [97:40] sense? Like you're like now I want to [97:42] buy a boat. So like I need someone to go [97:44] build me a boat. So I'll give that [97:46] person money to build a boat. Okay. So [97:48] this entire system works as long as we [97:52] believe this money has value. [97:55] But imagine the amount of US dollars [97:58] being printed today. It's obscene, [98:01] right? That's why you have $17 [98:03] avocado toast. Okay? When you have $7 [98:07] toast, it probably tells you the money [98:08] isn't worth that much. Okay? Also like [98:12] the idea that SpaceX is worth $220. [98:14] That's is that's just stupid. Okay. So, [98:17] we've reached a system where [98:20] we don't see any value in US dollars [98:24] anymore. And that's why young people [98:27] refuse to work. It's like they [98:29] understand this, right? Why I'm going to [98:31] work hard [98:33] um for $50,000 a year when that doesn't [98:37] get me anything. How much is a house? [98:39] Like $2 million? Like, how long do I [98:41] have to work to get a house? [98:44] Right? So the only way out of this is to [98:48] destroy the US economy. [98:52] Okay. So imagine the great depression [98:54] 1929 stock market collapse. Then you [98:56] have a great depression where people are [99:00] unemployed. They have no money and then [99:04] they beg to be sent to war. They beg [99:07] they beg to work in a factory. Okay. But [99:10] but to get to that point you need people [99:11] to suffer for like 10 years. And and [99:14] that's the plan because like the entire [99:16] point is not um to give you money. The [99:20] point is to make you want to work hard. [99:23] >> Should we wrap things up? [99:24] >> Yeah. Thank you so much. [applause]