Global Meet-Up #3 (New York City): The Eschatology of Capitalism

Thank you so much. It's great to be back in New York City. And tonight there's a lot to discuss. And what I want to focus on tonight is the Iran war, of course, why it's happening, where it's going. So the main argument I want to make you, I want to make today is the war in Iran. It is not a traditional war that you can analyze from a realist perspective. It's not about resources, it's not about power dynamics. It's fundamentally an eschatological war. And that's the argument I will make to you today. But it's a very complex argument, and I'll go step by step. Okay? So I'm going to treat this as a ordinary day in the school, and you guys will be my students. And so the general rule is. Feel free to interrupt. I am working not from rigor scholarship, I'm working from game theory. So all the ideas that I'll explain to you tonight should be intuitive, okay? If at any point you're like, you know what? That doesn't make sense, please raise your hand, Please interrupt. Okay? We have a great crowd today. It's packed. And so I'm really looking forward to participation, to debate, to dialogue. Okay? So that said, let's begin. All right, so let me first explain the. In very simplistic terms, the nature of the global economy that we have today. Okay, so there are two main pillars. There is the Middle east, the. The gcc, and then there is East Asia. And how the current economy works is the GCC provides the world with cheap energy. Okay? So this energy is sold primarily to East Asia. And East Asia, of course, is the manufacturing hub of the world. So it takes the energy, turns it into manufactured goods, and then it moves over to the west, which consumes these manufactured goods. And this, in very simplistic terms, is how the global economy is structured. Now, there is a particular quirk to this system, and it's all being undergirded by the US Dollar as a global reserve currency. So what happens is the GCC sells the energy in US Dollars and then US Dollars is recycled back into the US Economy. Same thing with East Asia, where East Asia will sell its manufactured goods in US Dollars and it will manufacture the. And then it will recycle the US Dollars back into the US Economy. Okay? And the idea of the United States as a global reserve currency, it is unique in human history, and it has been a disaster for the United States as a nation state, okay? And there are three reasons why. The first reason why is that the United States loses all financial independence, okay? So the United States must guarantee the free flow of US Dollars. And the United States has created a financial system in order to facilitate the free flow of capital around the world. And this is not good for the United States because you lose financial independence. The idea of this is the Eurodollar system. Now, the idea of the Eurodollar system is all the US Dollars are outside the United States. And quite honestly, we have no idea how much US Dollars is outside the United States. And so this Eurodollar system, it actually makes no sense from a national perspective. You have absolutely no idea how much US Dollars are in circulation. You have actually no control over how it is circulated, okay? So that's the first problem with this system. The second problem with the system is financialization, which basically means that in order for this system to work, this global economy to work, the United States has to become the financial center of the and shift resource extraction and manufacturing to the other parts of the world. So you hollow out your manufacturing sector. You no longer produce anything. You just speculate, okay? And we understand the problem with the system. It leads to corruption. Corruption, of course, just means Washington D.C. washington D.C. is the most corrupt place on this planet. You get nothing done unless you want to bribe congresspeople to do what you want, okay? So corruption is a huge issue. You have inequality, right? So think of New York City. I was in Santa Monica, Santa Monica last week. It was just the most ridiculous place in the world, okay? It was just so silly. You had the Pacific Palisades. You have the $100 mentions. They have skid row where they're on drugs. It's just ridiculous, okay? Inequality. And of course you have debt, okay? So it's almost like Americans exist in order to go into debt in order to fuel the global economy. So again, this is terrible for American citizens, okay? The third thing is just Pax Americana. And what I mean by that is this system is predicated on peace in order for people to trade with each other, right? So people need free access, free open maritime navigation for this system to work. And the United States must guarantee this free maritime navigation, which means a bloated military budget, okay? The United States must basically ensure the entire peace of the world, which causes tremendous military pressure on the United States. If you think about it, this makes no sense because United States doesn't have actually need a military, okay? I know it's hard for Americans to understand, but the United States doesn't need a military because there's no nation in the world that would actually dare to invade the United States. Okay. So all that money that goes in the military could be instead spent on things like free college or free health care. But the United States, because it is forced to protect global trade and ensure free, open maritime navigation, then it needs this $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget. Okay? All right, so this is the world as it is. And as you can appreciate, this is not really sustainable. Okay. And so what we're seeing right now is this system breaking apart because of the Iran war. All right, so before I continue, any questions about this? Is it all pretty clear? Yes. What are the benefits to the US from this? That's a great question. So the main benefit is Wall street is very happy with the system. Okay. So if you have this financial hierarchy that benefits tremendously from the system. All right, and that's why we still have the system. Yes. I think you said, like, there's no way to figure out how many dollars are outside of the US or in the euro dollar system. Yeah. Why is there no way to calculate that? Okay, so there's no way to calculate because a variety of factors. Okay? The first is money is not printed. Money is just created off a computer screen. Okay? That's number. And banks actually have the capacity to create their own money. Okay, that's number one. Number two is there's a lot of counterfeit money in the system. All right? Okay. Does that make sense? Yes. You're saying that if the US did not have a military, then even then other nations would have not dared to invade the U.S. are you saying that because the U.S. has a geographic advantage as a part of being in the western hemisphere? Yeah. So United States, it's impossible to invade because it's protected by two oceans, the Pacific and the Atlantic. That's number one. Number two is there are a lot of guns in America. Okay? All right. There's no military, but, like, you come and invade America, guess what? You'll be fighting for every street corner. Okay? It's just pain in the ass. Why would you do it? Yes, I was just gonna ask you say, like there's a breakdown, but I just want to know, like, what the symptoms of the breakdown are. Like, what are we seeing right now that show that there's a breakdown going on? Well, I explained corruption, inequality, and debt. Okay. And that's what this. That's why the system is not sustainable. Okay. I just mean, like, how do we see that? Like in our. In front of us? And what do we see? What are the things that we see this physically as those Symptoms. Okay, so the clearest symptom of a breakdown is the 2008 great financial crisis. Okay? That is when the United States government bailed out Wall street, but not homeowners. The idea behind this is the idea of regulatory capture, where Wall street, the Wall street financial elite, are able to control the policy levers of Washington D.C. because from a, just from a policy perspective, you actually want to belt the homeowners and not Wall Street. Right, because if you want the homeowners, that allows for a more efficient economy. But because you built the Wall street and not the homeowners, you create a case shaped economy. Now, okay, so the K shaped economy is basically the best indicator that the system is about to break down. Yes. So if you like, if we don't need this big of a military, and we just said that we're going to be spending $1.5 trillion on our military, who's getting like, like which. It's clearly corruption. So who is benefiting the most from this corruption? Because it's not like, yeah, the military industrial complex. Like, who specifically? Okay, so, so get on a train and go to Washington D.C. and go to the suburbs. Okay, in the suburbs, Fairfax County, Alexandria, they're all mansions. You go back 20 years, right before the war on terror. You go to a place called. So the wealthiest place in America is actually called Loden County, Virginia. All right? 20 years ago, the per capita income of that place was 30,000. Today it's 90,000. It tripled in 20 years time. What happened? The war on terror. That's what happened. Okay, so, so it is the military industrial complex. Yes. Why has financialization led to inequality? Like I, I get it, but I'm unable to break down because white collar jobs necessarily are a successor to financialization. You have people working in offices, doing it, jobs, tech jobs, sort of abstracted away from factory jobs. And those were supposed to. Okay, so that's a really good question. So why wouldn't financialization lead necessarily to inequality? And the reason why is that if you read Thomas Piketty, his book called Capital 21st Century, he explains this very clearly. And the idea is that for capital to be lucrative, it consolidates. Okay, so what happens is that once capital consolidates, its returns are very, very high, much higher than if you actually engage in real work. So for example, if you were open a factory, you might have a 2% return a year. But with financialization, the stock market, if you invest in stock market, you get 5% a year. So in this system, the richest get richer, the poor get poorer. Okay, all right. Yes. In your model, the premise right now assumes that America was structured and designed to be an ethno state. But in some of your previous lectures you mentioned that the founding idea of America was that if you give citizens or people the ability to buy private property and do whatever they want, that is the incentive that the government would want to create. And so by having open capital accounts, a strong banking system, technically we could just say everything you're saying are manifestations that would happen in every civilization throughout time. Inequality and all of these diseases. This warfare has been going on since before Homer. And so we just have a different paradigm of a different country that in this current world is not the ethnostate, but we have a hallucination that it is. So I'll explain this later on. Okay, so I apologize, I forgot I'm in New York City, not in China. Okay, so we have to cut this out. Okay, but there's one last question. Yes. I was wondering if the GCC pulls out the money from the stock market, it's going to be economic, some issue. I don't know if that's that cool you said. But I looked it up and the GCC only accounts for like 1 to like 2% of the US stock market. So how would that have like a profound effect? Yeah, so I mean, okay, so when we say like the GCC and East Asia recycle the US Dollars in the US Economy, that doesn't necessarily mean the US Stock market. It also mean hedge funds, could also mean real estate. Right. Because the stock market is only a very small portion of the U.S. economy. Okay, all right, but, but, but I'll explain more as we go on. Okay, all right, so let's go on. All right, so now I want to explain the war in Iran and how it is spinning out of control. Okay, so originally the war was between United States and Iran. Okay, so the Iraq, the United States strategy going into the war was very simple, decapitation, which means you knock out the leadership and then everyone else because they love democracy, they love freedom, they love human rights, they love only fans, whatever. Okay? They rebel and then you have a democracy. Okay, that was literally the plan going into the war. Didn't work out. The Iranians are much more resilient. The Iranians have countermeasures against the strategy, including closing off the short Hormuz. And I have a huge problem because 20% of the world's oil passes through the shift homose primarily going to East Asia. So this creates a bottleneck in your entire global Economy, right? This disrupts the model that I previously presented. But not only that, but as this war is progressing, the Houthis have been brought into the war. The Houthis are a huge problem because they control another strait called the Bab El Mandab strait, okay? And this screws Saudi Arabia, all right? Hezbollah and Israel are at war. Then Iraq is also at war right now, as you know, recently there's been a Middle east military lines signed by three countries, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan. Okay, this is Turkey right here and this is Pakistan. All right? So what I think what's going to happen is Saudi Arabia sees the Houthis as an existence threat and they will move against Houthis. They're probably backed by Israel. Israel has military bases over here, okay? So they've surrounded the Houthis. The problem is with this system, the Iranians have figured out that if you have four points of attack, including Hezbollah, which can attack the Suez Canal, the Houthis which can block that strait, and then the Sheriff Houmu's, what you've done is you've choked off the entire Middle east, okay? And also, like, you know, the GC saying, like, we'll just build pipelines, you know, that's retarded, okay? Because like if the drones can attack ships, they can probably attack pipelines as well. It's probably easier for them to attack pipelines because they're so huge, right? So the GC is completely screwed. But it also shows you that because they're proposing to build pipelines which cost billions of dollars and years to build, and they're not really a solution, it tells you that they don't really know what to do. They, they completely screwed in this, okay? Now what's important to also remember is that Russia, regardless of what happens, can always supply Iran from the Caspian Sea. And China for its Belt and Road initiative, can supply using railways. And so what's going to happen is that this war has to expand globally. Okay? You have this problem in the Middle east and then it's going to link up with the war in Ukraine. And this will be a global situation. And this is going to destroy the global economy. And the issue with this is, remember, These countries recycle US dollars back into the US economy, especially Japan. Remember, Japan has $1.1 trillion of US treasuries. Japan, what Japan does for the global economy is provide liquidity, all right? And so the idea is something called the Japanese yen carry trade. You guys may know what this is, but the idea is it's really the dumbest thing in the world where the Japanese banks will lend money to Japanese corporations at 0% interest rate. And the idea is, well, when you do that, you are providing liquidity for the Japanese economy, right? Because deflation is a huge problem in Japan. The Japanese corporation is like, well, we could do that, but there's a much simpler way to make money, which is we'll go buy U.S. treasuries at 5%. Okay? We're borrowing money at 0%. We are getting 5% by buying U.S. treasuries. So we'll take that free 5%. Thank you very much. Okay? And so because Japan does this, what it's really doing is providing liquidity for the liquidity, liquidity for the world, okay? And liquidity, by the way, is about $4 trillion. The problem with this is like, Japan gets most of its oil and energy from the Middle East. So the second thing is oil and energy investors are like, maybe I shouldn't put my money in Japanese yen, right? So now the Japanese yen is sinking. And so what the United States is doing is like, okay, we need to save the Japanese yen, because if the Japanese yen sinks, then the bank of Japan is going to recall also liquidity from the world to save the Japanese yen. And this will cause economic collapse in the United States. Because United States, the United States. 50% of US GDP growth is identity data centers, right? So like it's a bubble. So you need this liquidity from the gcc, from China, from Japan. This war means that these countries will have to be much more nationalistic. And so liquidity will dry up, which will eventually cause US Economic collapse. There's just no way around this. Okay? So given the situation, there is a solution to this. There's a way for the United States to win this war. And all United States has to do two simple things. If it does these two simple things, this war in Iran will end right away and the US Economy will be saved. Okay? So the first thing the United States can do is give Iran $2 trillion, okay? And this would be a disaster for Iran. So the example, the historical example is of course something called the Plaza Accord. The plastic accord happened because Japan at this point in history, but 1980s was the dominant manufacturing power in the world. And the Japanese yen was very weak, which meant that the Japanese were absorbing liquidity from the world, okay? And this was causing huge problems for the U.S. economy and for the global economy. So the Plaza Accord was an agreement between Japan and, and the G7 nations, Europe and United States, that Japan would increase the value of its currency. Okay? And this allowed Japan to buy property really cheaply overseas. Okay? And so now you've reversed the situation before you absorbing liquidity and now you are transferring liquidity to the world. Okay? And so this was terrible for Japan because it led to 30 years of deflation, stagflation, economic stagnancy. But it's great for the United States, right? So why not just do this for Iran as Well? Give Iran $2 trillion. It's US dollars, so they're eventually have to have to recycle it back into the United States economy, right? They'll buy resources to rebuild a lot of this. US Companies will be allowed to go United States, United States companies will be allowed to go to Iran to rebuild infrastructure, to sell oil around the world. It's great for everyone, right? So that's number one. Okay, two trillion. But there's something else that has to happen which is contain Israel. Okay? Israel. Yes, I understand. Yes. Okay, but let me finish. Okay, let's pretend that. Okay, okay. Israel, it's a huge problem in the Middle east because they're always going out starting wars, right? So what you do is say to Israel, we're going to embargo you. No more weapons for you guys. And like we're going to sanction you. If that would happen, peace would come to the Middle east, right? Just do these two small things. We will all live peacefully ever after and the global economy will be saved. Okay? We know for a fact none of these things are going to happen. Okay? So like, this is really strange. How do we get in a situation where 8 billion people, the fate of 8 billion people on this planet, it's all being determined by this one little country, okay, of like, what, 9 million people in the Middle East? The country is so small you can't even find it on a map. Okay. Of the Middle East. So this is a question we will examine tonight. What is going on where the United States, the most powerful country in the world, it is not able to protect its own national interests and it's only advancing the interests of this, again, really small nation in a desert somewhere. And we've already discussed the consequences for this war are just tremendous. It's the end of civilization, basically. But the United States is still allowing Israel to do whatever it wants. Okay? All right. So the main argument I want to make to you today is this war makes no sense unless you look at it from an eschatological perspective. This war is meant to usher in the end times. This war is meant to bring in The Messiah if you're Jewish and to have Jesus return if you're Christian. That's your own explanation for what's going on. If you look at it from any other lands, it makes absolutely no sense. Okay, Any quick questions? Yes. That model fails to acknowledge Islam. Iran is a big player. What is like, you're saying the return of Jesus, and then you're saying the end of times for the Jews, but then you have the Shia Islamic and you have the Sunnis. Why are they missing in the model? So you're right in that there are religious fanatics in Iran. Okay. Shia martyrdom, it's a very powerful force. But there's only a minority within Iran. Right? So there are. If you go to Tehran, the capital, most people are secular. The intellectual class, the government bureaucrats, a lot of them are secular. So it's the same thing in Israel where you go to Israel, 40% of Israelis are actually secular. So what's really strange about the world we're living in is history. It's being determined by this very small minority in each of these different nations, whether it be Iran, Israel, or the United States. Yes, Just a fundamental. There's like the 12 Islam. Right. The best eschatological belief within those groups. Right? So, like, just watching your lectures, Iran's not the enemy in this war. It's the United States. To remove the United States from the Middle east, to create. To, like, to establish, you know, Israel and the Greater Israel Project and PAC as the hegemon in the Middle East. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, yeah. So for when I say the end times, I mean they have to fulfill a certain prophecy. And I'll explain what this prophecy is. Okay? All right, so, guys, guys, guys. We'll be here all night if we. Okay. All right. All right, so that's number two. Okay, so number one is we establish how the global economy works. Number two is we've looked at how this war threatened to destroy the global economy and how this war is really being fought on the behalf of Israel. Okay? Now what I'll try to do is explain how is it that we got to this unique moment in history. So I'll explain to you the history and origin of capitalism. All right? All right. So capitalism. Capitalism is a historical accident. I know that most of you believe that capitalism is just the best way to run the world, but what I want to show you is that, in fact, it's a convergence of several historical accents that has created the world that we live in today. Okay? So the first historical accent is Calvinism. And in Calvinism, there's a very important idea called double predestination. And double predestination, the idea is at the beginning of time, when God created the universe, he already decided the destiny of everyone. He already decided who is going to go to heaven and who will go to hell. Okay, so double meaning heaven and hell, predestination meaning it's already been. Been decided. Why we have double predestination was. It was a rhetorical response to the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church was able to control people because Catholic Church could determine whether or not you went to heaven or hell. That was the source of the, of the power. And Calvinism was tried to subvert the power by saying, no, the church doesn't have this power. Only God has this power. And God has already decided. So no matter what you do, there's not, no matter what the Church says, the fate, your faith has already been decided. Because at this point in history, indulgences were a huge problem. Indulgences were just bribed to the Church so that if you're a bad rich person, you could basically get to heaven still. Okay, so Calvinism, now Calvinism, what's really interesting is it creates a more dilemma that didn't exist before, which is like, how do you know if God has chosen you or not? Right. Before, like you would know because the Church will tell you if you were selected or not. But now, like, you have to believe if you're chosen or not. And so the way they remedied this is through the idea of wealth creation. Okay, Wealth. Basically, if you're wealthy, it means God favors you. That makes sense, right? But the other thing that's interesting is communism demanded that you make wealth, but at the same time also not spend your wealth because you have to prove you are, you are a good person, right? So you make a lot of wealth, but you can't even spend your wealth. And this goes against human intuition because historically, when we make a lot of money, the first thing we do is spend on our friends and family, right? Because we take this wealth and we transfer it into status for ourselves in a community. And that's what intuitively we did in the past. But now communism breaks this cycle and says, no, no, no, if you make a lot of money, you also have to save it, which basically means you have to invest it. And this is weird, okay? But this basically creates capitalism. You can't spend your money, you can only save it. And because of this concept, you now have a new entity in the world called the Dutch Republic. And what the Dutch Republic would do is take people's savings and then start these enterprises around the world that led to a spice monopoly. And at this time in history, spices are the most valuable thing in the world. The Dutch Republic, because of capitalism, now becomes the wealthiest region in the world. And they create, really, the world's first idea of a middle class. Okay. This leads to, of course, called something called the Dutch Renaissance. The problem with this is the Dutch Republic used to be part of the Habsburg Empire, and now that they're so wealthy, they're constantly being invaded. So you have all this money, you have to protect this money in order to get to heaven that you're taking to heaven. But how do you prevent the Catholics from coming and stealing your money? Okay, this led to something called the Glorious Revolution. 1688. Glorious Revolution. This is the second historical accident. So the Glorious Revolution is really a marriage of the dominant Protestant powers in Europe at this time, which. Which are England and the Dutch Republic. Right? So with the Glorious Revolution, what happens is the Dutch Republic now transfers their gold, their wealth to England. Why? Because England is an island protected by the Royal Navy. The Royal Navy is invincible. So it's really the best place to store your money. The Glorious Revolution then leads to something called. Leads to the chartering of the bank of England. Okay. This is the third historical accident. The bank of England, 1694. The bank of England is unique in history because it's run by merchants, Right? Historically, merchants would lend money to kings for their wars. The problem is the kings could die, they could lose the war, or they could be like, screw you, I'm the king. I don't have to pay you back. So there's always a huge problem for these merchants. The bank of England solved this problem because they. They're lending money not to the king, but to Parliament. Okay? So basically, the bank of England, again, it's so weird if you think about it. It is a private bank that is guaranteed by the people of England. Okay? Now you're lending money not to the king, but to the English nation, which means that as long. Which basically means that as long as there's one Englishman alive, that person has to pay you back. All right? So it's a really weird system, but this creates our modern financial system. The bank of England model, of course, will be copied with the Federal Reserve. So the Federal Reserve system in the United States is model of the bank of England system. Now, this system is great because what it allows is basically for infinite financing. So the example is the Nepal, like, wars. When England was trying to fight Napoleon for dominance in Europe, and England lost six times. It only won once. But England only needed to win once because it has infinite financing. No matter how badly Napoleon defeated them on the battlefield, England could just print money and says, okay, well, bribe you Prussians or Russians, go fight another war, okay? And so the bank of England basically creates the British Empire. Okay, so capitalism, then what happens, of course, is these ideas will then spread to the United States and create the American Empire. So these are all historical accidents. Calvinism was an accident, Glorious revolution, Bank of England, United States. These are all historical accidents. Okay, but once you have these accidents in place, you now have to explain them. You have to create a philosophy or religion, a bureaucratic system in order to manage these accidents. Okay, so now I'm going to explain to you how they did so. But are we clear so far? Yes, one question. So a lot of this looks like, like the act of money lending has been encouraged, eased up, or just increased over time. Why is that? As many religions discourage that or advise most of their followers to not engage in it. Yeah, exactly. So most religions, I would say all religions, banish usury. Okay, why? Because usury was the most destructive element in society. It basically caused all sides to collapse sooner or later. So all religions ban usury. Judaism is unique in that it only bans usually for the members of the religion. So if you're Jewish, you can't lend money at interest to other Jewish people, but you can lend money at interest to gentiles. But all the religions ban usury because it was such a socially volatile force, right? Yes. Not that I disagree, but what makes each event an actual accident? The Calvinism one, I understand a bit more. Yeah, but the charter in such accident, right? Okay, so when I mean accident, I mean they were not planned strategically. They were all response to a specific problem that arose at that particular time. Okay, does that make sense? Yes. Okay, thank you. All right. All right, so now I'm going to explain to you the philosophies that developed because of these historical accidents. Okay, now you have capitalism. Now you have to explain capitalism to the people. All right? So they have certain philosophers in place to develop a system in order to explain capitalism to the people and justify it. Okay, so one country that arose is democracy and private property. If you think about it, these two things are actually a structural contradiction. We, you guys live in the United States. You think this is the most normal thing. In democracy, of course, you have private property. But actually, if you think about it logically, it doesn't make any sense because private property basically means an oligarchy, right? Democracy means ruled by the people. So the people choose, if they vote to say, you know, like, we want to redistribute wealth, they should be allowed to do so because it's a democracy. Right? But private property, the idea of private property is it is an inherent and inalienable right given to you by God. Therefore, you are not allowed to touch each other's private property. Okay? So we have this system as a response to the bank of England, because the bank of England is private property, but it's guaranteed by the people. So how do you get, how do you, how do you elevate, elevate this contradiction by saying to people, well, we have a democracy. Okay, you choose to respect each other's private property. Does it make sense? Okay, so this is a contradiction, but this arose because of the inherent contrary nature of the bank of England. All right? Another contradiction that arose at this time is that reason and emotion or distinct this, you guys don't appreciate this, but this is actually a revolution in human thought. Because if you look at every other culture before this, reason came from emotion, right? The idea that you could think independently of your emotion was ridiculous to everyone. Like, go read the Greeks, go read the Chinese. Every ancient civilization is the heart and the mind are aligned. In fact, in China, we say that the heart is the mind. Okay? You think your emotions. And look, all the neuroscience tells us that is that is true, okay? Our memories are essentially emotions and our memories become the units for our thinking. But so the question is, why do they come up with this silly idea that again is counterintuitive, the separation between reason and emotion. And the answer is because of what reason means. Okay, Reason in this formulation actually means capital, and emotion means family, tradition, nation, community. Okay, does that make sense? So in order for capital to win it's transfer capital, there has to be a free movement of goods, people and ideas. And whatever obstructs the free movement of capital is inherently bad. And they're labeled as emotions. Okay, does that make sense? All right, so again, we think these things are just intuitive, but if you think about logically, it makes no sense. And they came up with these formulations as response to the distinct nature of capitalism at this time. Yeah, so you say that like in the French Revolution they saw God as reason, and in Greek literature they see the gods as like emotions. Yes, like they act in the world. So is that like why when they started to see God as reason and then they conflated reason with capital. That's how we got to where we are. Okay, all right, so that's a really good question. Okay, but, but, but, but let me explain the history. Okay? All right. Let me finish this section and then it'll become clear to you. All right, so you have these ideas that are contradictions that must come into place in order to allow for transnational capital to dominate the world. Okay? The first is like democracy and private party are not contradictions. They are intertwined together. They are the one and the same. The second is that reason and emotion are separate, whereas before in human history, we saw them as one and the same. Okay, so in order to promote the system of transfer capital, you need both in public layer as well as secret layer. Okay? The public layer is just what we call philosophy. And the three main philosophies that develop in order to justify this system are empiricism, skepticism and utilitarianism. Okay? David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, John Locke. Okay, so I'm going to too much into it, but there's a secret layer to all this. The secret layer is Freemasonry. Okay, All right. Freemasonry is the religion of reason. If you read Freemason texts, whether it be Albert Pike, Morrison dogma or Manly P. Hall, they use a phrase over and over again. It's the idea of holy empire of reason. What is this? It's a holy empire of capital. Okay? So again, it's really important for us to appreciate reason in their eyes is capital. All right? So. And this created a revolution in human cognition. Because before, if I met someone, I might be like, okay, where are you from? Right? That's the first one I would ask you, like, what community are you part of right now? I might be like, how much money do you have? You understand? Okay. I mean, again, this is the United States. So you think this is the most intuitive thing, to judge people by how much money they have. But historically, we judge people by the community that they come from, the God that they worship, who their fathers are, who their parents are. Right? Okay, so this is the idea. Okay? Freemasonry was developed in order to better organize, structure, and manage capitalism secretly. Right? Because remember, the idea is democracy is just a facade created in order to fool people to agree to let bankers run the world. Okay? But you need a real management system, and this real management system is called Freemasonry. All right? Okay. Were religious organizations against it or were they part of it? Excuse me, Were the religious organizations Catholic Church was not with this. I mean, okay, with this. Were they Part of it or were they? Yeah, that's a great question. Okay, all right, so let's use game theory, okay? So the question is, okay, you have this secret organization called the Freemasons, and they actually are translational capital, and they want to conquer the world and spread capital everywhere. There must have been organizations against this system. Well, there were, okay? The problem is that this system set up so that capitalism will always win out. Okay? So if you go align yourself with capitalism, then you win out. If you go against capitalism, you lose out. Right? So think of over history where things like monarchy, organized religion, the Catholic Church, basically community, they're all being. They're all being withered away, right? Okay? So you see all this massive migration to United States into Europe. You're like, well, who's doing this? And the answer is, it's capitalism, guys, okay? Capitalism demands a free movement of people, goods and ideas. And so if you try to stop them, then they see you as an enemy. Okay, but, but, but let me use game theory to explain what's going on. All right? So transnational capital is the most powerful force in the world. And so if you go against transnational capitalism, you will be destroyed. Okay? And if you look at the movement of human history for the past 20 years, it's been the triumph of transnational capitalism. Okay? So the first example is the French Revolution. The Enlightenment is really the expression of capitalism, the political expression of capitalism. Right? Because what does Enlightenment call for? The Enlightenment calls for the free movement of ideas, people and goods. Right? Okay. The Enlightenment leads to what? The French Revolution. Then what happens? You have the rise of communism. Now, what's really interesting is if you talk to these Freemasons, they think communism is the best thing in the world. Why? Because communism is a triumph of human reason above emotion. Right? Communism demands that you put the public good, the reason, above family, community, emotion, love, nationalism. Okay? That's what communism is. So if you look at the past 200 years, 300 years, it's been the relentless march of human reason, of capital, but taking different guises, taking different forms, whether it be the French Revolution or communism or capitalism. Okay, all right. Does that make sense? All right, so let me explain how what's been happening, okay? So I say Freemasonry is the organizing system behind capitalism. But what does that mean? Okay, so transnational capital means capital across different nation states. Okay? When you do that, you have a problem. And so what they realize is if you're able to solve three problems, you will triumph. The first problem is information. Second problem is Infiltration. The third problem is coordination. Okay? So the classic example of the Rothschilds, the Rothschilds had their family was spread out in the different capitals of Europe, including Frankfurt, where they're from, but also Paris, London. And one story that stood out is the 1815 Battle of Waterloo. So the British and the Prussians fought Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, and of course, Napoleon lost. Now, the Rothschild had agents to monitor the battle. When the battle was declared, the agent got on a corvette, which is a fast ship, and sailed across the English Channel and told the information to Rothschilds. Three days before the public knew. Okay? During these three days, there was a wild panic because for the reason we don't know who did it, but there are rumors going around that the British had lost the battle. All right? Okay, so this is the idea of information infiltration and coordination. Information means how do you access information quicker than other people? Infiltration is how do you put agents into certain places that allow you to access sensitive information. And coordination is how do you work across different nation states in order to break the game in your favor, okay? And the best way to do this is through secret societies. Now, at this time in history, there are maybe three transnational forces in Europe. They are, of course, the Freemasons, they are the Jesuits, and they are the Jewish Diaspora. Okay? And eventually what they realize is, well, you guys, we could just work together, right? When you combine the three Masons with the Jesuits and with the Jewish Diaspora, you get an organization called the Illuminati. All right? Illuminati. All right. So the best way to understand this is. Okay, I'm not saying that they're planning this out, okay? What they are doing is this, okay? There are different organizations. There are different organizations, and they all have a range of certain behavior, okay? There are people within the Catholic Church who are pro transcendental capital, people who are against transcendental capital. What I'm saying is that secret societies are convergence point. A convergence point of these different organizations. And because they are a lot, because they have. They're able to coordinate singularly together, they will always win out. Okay? Does it make sense? All right, so I'm not saying that most people are part of secret societies, but I'm saying, like, if you choose to be part of secret society, you will be at a greater advantage than if you are not. Okay? If you're just a government bureaucrat, you'll just be given bureaucrat for the rest of your life. But if you're part of secret society and you're given bureaucrat, then Your friends will help promote you in the bureaucracy. Then you'll be given investment opportunities. Then your children will be allowed to go to the most elite universities. Okay? So it is your advantage to join the secret society. Okay. All right. Does that make sense, guys? Yes. So you named three then. But what are the organizations or institutions that lost out, who can be traced through to see degraded as a result of this coordination? Okay, that's a great question. Okay, so one thing I disagree with people about is how these ideas are continuous, right? So what people say, okay, well, it start out with the Knight Templars, which was the original secret society, and then it evolved to become the Freemasons, and then they became the Rosicrucians. And I don't believe this is what happened. I believe that secret societies are just a natural byproduct of transnational capitalism, because the way to win this game is by forming secret societies. But secret societies usually revolve around a charismatic figure, okay? And so maybe the charismatic figure will start a new organization called Skull and Bones, right? And be. And then he'll. Because he's so successful, very successful, people gravitate towards him. But eventually what happens is these people become very arrogant, their children become very arrogant, and the secret society gives way to other secret societies. But what I think is true is the most powerful secret societies are eschatological, Okay? So what I mean by that is if you're suicidal and you're like, you know, we're here to, like, you know, make a lot of money and enjoy ourselves, you won't do as well in the long term as we're here to serve God, and we're here to bring God to our world. We're here to usher in the end times, okay? And there are certain reasons why. The first reason why is if it's eschatological, it's a script that you can play out over centuries. If it's not eschatological, then it usually revolves around a charismatic leader who, when he dies, the organization devolves, okay? That's the first thing, okay? It can span centuries because it's a script. Second thing is that you can have more people participate in the movement, right? You can scale it out. It's eschatological. And the third thing is people tend to be much more energetic when they think that, oh, I'm going to bring up the end times. We are going to take the world to paradise, right? This is a jihad, okay? So sigma societies that are eschatological tend to do better than societies that are not Eschatological. Okay? And specifically sigma societies are practiced something called the Kabbalah. Do the best. All right, the Kabbalah. So now what I'm gonna do is I'm explaining to you the Kabbalah. Okay? So if you know Freemasonry, if you read books like Morals and Dogma by Albert pike, they're very open about the structure. And what you recognize is Freemasonry tries to be the religion of reason. It tries to absorb all the best practices from every single religion out there and come up with, like, you know, the empire of reason. And so maybe at the bottom levels, you'll have, like, Pythagoras, the Egyptians, but as you go up the highest level. It's the Kabbalah. Yes. Why did the Freemasons feel that reason was above emotion when they founded Freemasonry? What led them to the decision of that? Was it coordination? They felt they could. Okay, all right, so I'm not. So they didn't plan this out, okay? Remember all of this. All this is being a response to a certain problem, right? So you are trying to spread transnational capital around the world. And so how do you convince yourself and others that capitalism is good? Well, what you do is you create a. A distinction between reason and emotion, where reason is capital, Right? Let's make things for money. And emotion is prejudice, right? No, I can't make money because my religion doesn't allow for it. Okay, so that's what happened. It isn't like, you know, the Freemasons had an epiphany which is like, oh, my God, reason and emotion are sep. Are separate. No, no. It was a response to a problem that they had. Okay? Does that make sense? Okay, so the Kabbalah. What's the Kabbalah? Okay, and again, I want to be concise, okay, The Kabbalah. The Kabbalah, it is an understanding of how the universe works. Okay? Why are we here? Where we going, where the universe come from? And what the Kabbalah says is that God is the will to bestow. Okay? He's God, right? He's all generous, and he wants to share himself with others. Problem is there's no one to share it with. So to know, to know itself, to complete itself, God creates Adam Kanmon, okay? The first man, the cosmic man. And Adam Kanmon becomes the will to receive. Okay? But if you're the one who receive, you see things purely from an egotistical perspective, which means you don't really appreciate why God wants to give you anything, so you reject God's gift. And when you reject God's gift, the universe breaks, okay? And so now you have the separation between us and God. So the purpose of the universe is to come to an enlightenment so that we're able to receive God's gift. This could mean spiritual alchemy. Okay? All right? And that is the Kabbalah. At a very general level, there are radical factions who read the Kabbalah and they interpret it literally, okay, through the lens of the Bible. And so they take this idea that the entire purpose of humanity is to seek reunion of God, and they use the Bible as a script or as a plan, and they interpret it literally, which means to say they want to seek reunion of God by acting out God's divine plan as told in the Bible. Okay? And what this divine plan basically means is, okay, well, the Jews must first return to Israel in order to fulfill the covenant between the Jews and God. Then the Jews must build the Third Temple as a resting place for. For God. And this will initiate the war of Gog and Magog. And when the Jews are most in need, then God will come and save them and save the world, okay? Because what union of God means is opening your heart to God, and this means to repent. Okay? So this is how they interpret. And again, I'm talking very general terms, but this is how they interpret their role literally, okay? This is why we're seeing what was happening in the Middle East. Why are they Israelis committing genocide in Gaza like that? That's just insane. You don't have to do that, guys, okay? But they're perfectly doing it, and they're doing in 4K. Why? Because they want the whole world to see this. Because they want to. They want to initiate the war of Gog and Magog, which will force the Israelis to come together, okay? That's why anti Semitism is growing in the world. And this will force the Gog, will force the Jews to repent and turn to God, and then the world will end, okay? And then they can build the Third Temple. This is. This is why it's happening. So I want to really. But I want to explain why the Kabbalah is so powerful. And it's so powerful because there's a sexual energy and desire that the Kabbalah unleashes, right? Because it's sexual. The idea of, like, reunifying with God, okay? We were part of God, we left God, and now we will become with God again. It's a sexual union, and that excites people. Okay, I hate to say this, but, like, have you guys seen Peter Hecksef give press conferences? The guy's literally. When he's talking about the war, it's almost like he's having an orgy. Okay? He's having an orgasm. Okay? And like, that tells you this guy's been reading the Kabbalah a lot. Like, I'm serious. Like, these guys who are committing genocide, like Peter, Peter Hexev, they literally see it in sexual terms. Like, you know, we're so close to achieving the end times. We are so close to becoming one with God. Okay? They're excited about it. All right. Okay. Excuse me. I'm listening the whole time. Like, I really don't get why people really believe that this is how you get close to God. Killing and killing and killing. That's so far from love. Yeah, okay. That's a good question. Okay, so. So from an intuitive perspective, it makes no sense, because why can't you just open your heart and welcome God? And the answer is, it's too goddamn slow, man. Okay, you could do it, but can your neighbor do it? Can your neighbor's neighbor do it? Probably not. Okay? But for the Kabbalah to work out, everyone has to do it. So how do you create the conditions so that evidence forced to do it? So my question is, as a kid, because I grew up in a very religious home, when I was being conditioned, I would always ask, well, why only one type who got Jews as the chosen? That makes no sense to me. It felt, even as a kid and even now as an adult, it feels like that's a false God, that's a false belief, because my intuition doesn't believe this being what the whole world does. Yeah, okay, that's a great point. Okay, so you can argue there are a lot of logical fallacies within Judaism, especially messianic Jews. Okay? You can say they're crazy. The problem is the world is not run by reason. The world is not run by who's right and who's wrong. The world is run by those who sacrifice themselves in order to achieve what they want. Okay? That's the issue. These people are crazy. But that's why they run the world, because they're willing to make sacrifices that no one else is willing to do. So the example I have is, you guys remember of this Muslim who killed these two Christians outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. do you guys remember that incident? And this was a married couple. They were Christians, and they were, I think, volunteering of the Israeli embassy. And they caught a Muslim, and he was clearly drugged out. And I don't speculate too much, but there are people online who think that these two Christians purposely martyred themselves in order to advance the Zionist cause. Does that make sense? Like, for them, death means nothing. If I die in order to accelerate the coming of God, then it's worth it. Again, again, it's not about who's right and who's wrong. It's about who's willing to work the hardest to achieve his or her ends. And these people are the craziest, so they usually get what they want. Okay, so think of the issue lobby, which is basically like just one issue, right? If you go into Israel, we'll come after you. We'll spend like $30 million. And you're like, Thomas Massie was just one lone voice in Congress. He was clearly powerless. He was a pain in the ass. But like, honestly, who cares? They spent $30 million to get rid of this guy. Then you have like, you know, Abdul El Salvador in Michigan. Right? $30 million spent by AIPAC to against him and the $60 million total against him. So they're fanatical, right? You're like, is it really worth it? Like, you might have like five people in Congress who are against Israel. Everyone else is for Israel. Like, the math still is in your favor, right? They don't care. Like, no, if one person, we don't care who it is, that one person is against us, we'll go after that person and make sure he or she can never be in Washington. Okay, so it's fanatical. Yes. Did you have a question? Yes. Nine, 11. It was a sacrifice. So. Let me continue. Okay, then 9, 11 will make sense. Okay, okay. So you're like, okay, well, okay, you have these religious fanatics. Yes. Before we continue on this, on this topic, so how come China doesn't have corresponding organizations or societies like freemasons and capitalists, etc. Right? Yeah. Because China has families. Okay, so families take the place of secret societies. Right. Because China, it's not transnational. It. China works within its own borders. So you don't really need civil societies in order to win out. Okay, so families in China win out over secret societies because families are much more close knit than secret societies. But in the world, in the western world, where the geography is much more spread out, where cultures are much more diverse, will win out over families. Okay, does that make sense? All right, all right, guys, we can be here all night. Okay, but let me finish my point. Okay, so I'll do one more section which is like, okay, we now have a question which is okay, you've got these crazies in these secret societies that want to usher in the end times, but this is bad for transnational capital, right? And the answer. And so what I want to show you now is actually, if you're trying to transfer capital, you like these guys, okay? So we're seeing an alliance between structural capital and messianic secret societies. And that this is why we live in the world that we live. All right, so let me explain to you why, as treasury capitalist, I actually like these guys. All right? So one thing to keep in mind is capital has no value in itself. Capital is a tool for me to extract your energy, your attention, your consciousness. Okay? Does that make sense? All right, so if I'm a traditional capitalist and like, America is so wealthy, rich, right? So filthy rich, right? I'm in New York City, maybe the average family here. I'm saying, hypothetically, each family has a million dollars. That means the kids don't have to work, right? But if the kids aren't working, then the system breaks down. So I need to create a condition where people are forced to work. So capitalism, it creates wealth, but also must destroy wealth at the same time. It doesn't make sense. And the best way to destroy wealth is through war and revolution. So this is how capitalism will work. And again, I'm not saying this is a plan. I'm saying that it's the nature of capitalism to do this. All right, so I'm the. So I'm in the United States, and it's a wealthiest country of the world, and all our capital is here. But this has led to moral, social and political decay, right? Too much debt, too much corruption, too much inequality. And now I can't invest in the United States because I can't get any returns, right? Like, what do I invest in? The United States? Like AI data centers. There's no return in that. Okay, so this war in the Middle east, which will actually impact Sudiaca, this is the best investment opportunity for me right now, right? Because imagine, okay, like maybe five, 10 years down the road, the Middle east, east is destroyed. Well, it's good for me because if you destroy, I can now rebuild. Okay? So coming here, I took the New York subway, and I was like, wow, man, you guys have to take this away every day, man, that's gonna tell. And I'm like, okay, what do you do with the New York subway? Because it's gonna cost you a fortune to renovate it, right? And it'll take you forever to renovate it. So your only solution if you're capitalist is. Okay, is to burn it down, right? Is that the cheapest way, the most effective way to renovate the New York subway, you just burn it down first, Right. Otherwise it's taking like 50 years and billions of dollars, $200 in order to actually make it modern. Right. It's just cheaper and faster. Just burn it down. But if you want to burn down the New York subway, you probably have to burn down New York City as well. Right? But I'm telling you, this is how these guys think. Like, how do I get return? The best return for my money, and the best return for money is to invest in places after war, after destruction. Okay? So they moved their capital to Israel, to Pachida. And a lot of this capital is also going to Argentina, Australia, Ukraine, the Mediterranean. Okay? So basically places that are virgin territory, right? And it's all being anchored by Pax Judaica. Does that make sense? All right, so when the money shifts away from the United States, you have economic collapse. Economic collapse leads to civil war. Now New York City's burned down. The New York subway is burned down. Which means what? Which means now I can invest in a new subway system. So now after like maybe 10, 20 years, my capital can return to the United States. Okay? So another way of saying this is the only way for capitalism to work is a constant cycle of destruction, revolution, and war. Without these things, capitalism cannot work. Does that make sense? So you think, okay, well, these kabbalists are crazy, but these capitalists are kind of crazy too. So. Okay, that is it. I look forward to your questions. Okay. All right, well, we'll do Firestar Chat first, right? Okay. Okay, cool. So I took a lot of the questions that you guys put in the questionnaire and I just compiled them and asked right now. Afterwards, we'll do a broader Q and A. So anyone can ask any other questions. So we'll just start with the first question here. Does China have. Does China have similar secret societies? What does it look like? I know we kind of talked about it, but. Yeah, right. So there are suicides in China. There are secret societies everywhere, and they're basically family focused, right? So it's usually one family and it's usually a criminal organization, triads. And then they obtain power and they become legitimate. So the Chinese system, it. The problem, the Chinese system is that it's not transnational. It's only within a certain ethnic network. So it's much more limited in scope. The other issue with the Chinese secret societies is they're not eschatological. They're political, but they're not eschatological. Can I ask a follow up question? Yeah. I heard I may be wrong, but I heard that the CXi, for reasons they have infiltrated into the top CPCE officials like Wang Q. And that's been since they came to China in 1848, the open war. So it never stopped. That's what I heard. But whatever it is. And they are now kind of embargoed China. Now do you see that they are the Freemasons of China. They are as determined as before in the 1950s to scramble strangle China. Just like with Indian people. Yeah. Okay. So China is in many ways have been colonized by secret societies, by these, by traditional capital. So the goal of traditional capital is to go to a place and extract as much energy as possible and transfer it into capital. And that's what's happened in China. And you know, I would make the argument that China has really hollowed out. Right. So in the 80s and 90s, Chinese capital went into China and built factories in order to extract the energy of its demographic. And then afterwards, and I don't think people appreciate this, but China could have only embarked on its infrastructure, infrastructure spending with the aid of capital. Right. Because you need resources to build these highways and skyscrapers. So capital that allowed China to buy these resources from Australia, from South America. Because at that time, 2008, there's an agreement between the bank of International Settlement and China to increase the value of the yuan of the Chinese yuan which allows China to buy up all these resources. And this infrastructure spending has really hollowed out the Chinese economy because this infrastructure spending has led to corruption in quality and debt as well. So China is basically done and there's really no real growth for potential for China. And that's why transfer capital is shifting from the United States and China to the Middle East. Right. Again, if I'm a capitalist, I'm a trillionaire. I'm always looking for a place where which will grow. And I think the United States and China are in the same boat. They're both empires in decline. Okay. Do you see a kind of similar repeat of what happened in 1950s when the try to just close up? Yeah. So I think what's going to happen is that China will be embargoed by its running neighbors and it will just remove itself from the global financial system. The global supply chain is going to turtle up. When it does that, it's going to lead to structural contradictions. Why? Because people are in the urban areas, are used to a modern Western lifestyle. And so if there's not enough food, I know this sounds silly, but if there's not enough food, the people in the urban areas, Beijing and Shanghai, want to maintain their current lifestyle. And if there's not enough food, guess what's gonna happen? There's gonna be famine in the countryside. This is what happened during the Great Leap Forward as well. So I'm not very optimistic about China. So you're saying that there will be kind of a civilization? I think so, yes. All right. Okay, next question. What are the historical analogies of the current day technology transitions and consolidation of power. So I see AI as a larger extension of this holy empire of reason, right? Because what you're trying to do is you're trying to allow for the rapid, almost seamless, frictionless movement of people, people, goods and ideas, okay? And freemasons appreciate that the main constraint on this is are humans. Why? Because humans have emotions and emotions are prejudices, they're biases. And they prevent the seamless movement of goods, people and ideas. So you have to break that, okay? You have to transform people. They call it spiritual alchemy. And to do that. And so AI is considered a tool in order to achieve this. So that's what AI is. AI is not just a surveillance tool. What AI is. I mean, AI will help us as humans achieve full enlightenment, right? So imagine a microchip implanted in your head. Neuralink, right? That's always telling you the right thing to believe. And if we're able to synchronize all of human consciousness, then that would lead to paradise, right? Because all biases, all prejudices, all negative emotions will be wiped out from the world. So that's what's happening. AI is not necessarily a revolution. AI is just the fulfillment of capital. What is the future state of the Middle east in the short term, following the conclusion of the Iran war? And is there any realistic chance that the existing global power structures will or even can be changed in meaningful ways? Okay, first of all, this war in Iran will never end. It just can't end. Because the war in Iran, it's fundamentally a conflict between capital and religion, okay? And Israel represents capital and Iran represents religion. So this is a contradiction. And only one can win out over the other. But it's impossible for one to defeat the other. I mean, the idea of the United States sending in ground troops against Iran, it's going to lead to a quagmire that could go on for decades. But if you're a capitalist, you don't really Care, Right? Because all you're looking to do is extract as much energy from people as possible. And war does that. War makes people anxious. It makes them work harder. So the war in the Middle east, it's a perfect investment opportunity if you're a capitalist. And again, guys, I'm not saying this. If you're a millionaire. You don't matter if you're a millionaire. I'm saying this. If you're a trillionaire, okay? If you're a trillionaire, then the war in the Middle east is a perfect investment opportunity. And the question is, is there an alternative to this? And the alternative is the return to religious nationalism. So countries like Iran and Russia present a direct threat to capitalism. So they call this Duganism. Alexander Dugan, who proposes. Who basically says capitalism is the Antichrist system. It's the beast. And it negates all that is good in humans. And it includes family, community, emotion, emotions like love. So this is really the great struggle that humanity will face over the next 50 years. And this struggle is represented by the United States versus Russia. Excuse me, you just said, like Dubai. The idea of Russia operating at the catacombs. That's right. Preventing the Antichrist from occurring. Yes. Do they represent one of the two figures in Gog and Magog? Right. Like the idea of. Okay, so there are different eschatological systems, okay. In the Russian Third Rome, eschatology. Russia is a catacomb, okay? And it's meant to stop the Antichrist from conquering the world. The Antichrist, of course, is capitalism. Right, but then you have the Christian Zionist eschatology, which. Which perceives Russia and Persia as Gog and Magog. It doesn't make sense. Okay, but these are different eschatologies. Professor, can you speak a little bit more about the Antichrist that Peter Theo is obsessed with and what his version of it? What is he trying to tell us? What is he implying? You know, he goes and meets Javier Milei and gives him a lecture by Antichrist. What is he trying to say? I think Peter Thiel is carrying on the Freemason tradition. I don't know Peter Thiel. You should ask Kathy. But I think what Peter Thiel is doing is carrying on the Freemason tradition. And for the Freemasons, the Antichrist is whatever force that stops human reason from reaching its full potential. Okay. Does that make sense? Okay, what. What the free races believe is if human. If everyone. If human reason is allowed to dominate, okay, then human reason can achieve Godhood. Okay? Our collective reason becomes God itself as represented by AI. So whatever force that stops the advent of reason, the advance of AI is fundamentally against God and therefore the Antichrist. Does that make sense? That, I think is a subtext of what he's saying. All right, will American universities and the GCC survive? Nope. Nope. How will the Iran and Ukraine wars converge? And how will there be both an AI and private bubble? AI private bubble crash and hyperinflation at the same time? That's a little different. Okay, so these wars have to converge because Russia is supplying Iran through the Caspian Sea. And Ukraine sees it as an opportunity to combine both fronts. Okay, so Zelensky ordered drone strike against an Iranian cargo ship trying to transporting through the Caspian Sea. And the idea is that if you provoke the Iranians, the Iranians will begin to attack Europe and Ukraine because a lot of drone factories are based in Europe. And so I think this is just. This is, this will just happen naturally because it's really hard to separate these fronts. And more actors will be brought in over time. Time. Because the stakes are so high. What was the other section? How will there be both an AI private bubble crash and hyperinflation at the same time? Okay, you, you have hyperinflation because the fiat currency, which is US Dollar, it's moving slowly towards zero. Okay, so that's a problem. And the AI part of credit, private credit bubble will pop because liquidity is being removed from the US System. Right. So the gcc, Japan are longer able to invest in the United States because of their own problems. Yes. So if the AI bubble crashes eventually, which is going to, could that be like, wealth destruction? So, like, if the wealth is destroyed, the people have to work. Yeah. Who's going to benefit? Whose wealth will be. Look, look, all these bubbles are engineered, all right? So the fact that the media is telling you the bubbles are going to burst basically is telling you, like, there are some vested interests that want this bubble to burst. And who are these vested interests? Well, I would assume the big AI companies. Right. Because why would you, as old men, want the bubble to burst? And the answer is the government has to compare you out now. Right. You're too big to fail. The bulb bursts OpenAI goes bankrupt. This is a disaster for the American economy. Therefore, Trump has no choice but to nationalize data centers. Right. And why would you want that? Because now you socialize the losses and privatize the gains. Right. The data centers cost you a lot of money, and they're hard to implement because of community reaction. But if Trump and the United States government comes in and Nationalizes these data centers, there are now military installations. Now you have imminent domain. Now the communities can't complain. Right. And data centers are the main cause of AI companies. So you want the bubble to burst so that the federal government can come in and save your ass and then. Yeah, right. Does that make sense? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. So you mentioned this in one of your lectures as well. Like the engineering of bubbles bursing. I think it implies like a mechanism of control. So in this instance, what would you say is the lever that a sample that can cause a bubble? That's a really good question. Because this AI bubble is distinct from other bubbles. Because you go back to the 2008 subprime crisis, there was a trigger mechanism which was the home default. Right. But with this AI bubble, it's a sickler financing. So it's basically seven companies and it's a circle jerk. They're all financing each other and as long as they agree to not burst a bubble, the bubble won't burst. So what is the mechanism that will burst this bubble? And the answer is. Well, those make something up. I mean, they have all sorts of pre taxes. But these seven will agree at some point to burst the bubble and it will be collusion. And they are actually already. If you just watch the news, okay, just so many news articles about this bubble's gonna burst, this bubble's gonna burst. Right. They're already laying the groundwork. It's predictive programming. That's what it is. Yes. My question is like, what are they gaining by letting it continue to go on? I don't get why they're not just bursting. You say that like they have to time it right. What are they gaining by letting it continue on? So first of all, you just let it go on because. Because it's a path of least resistance. Okay. That's number one. Number two is they can always control the time it collapses and when they time to collapse. What they can do then is short the market to maximize their gain. So people always pick the path of least resistance. If you don't have to pop the bubble, you don't, you don't want to pop the bubble. But if you're forced to pop the bubble, then you want to pop it in a way that maximizes your gain. Okay. Yes. How can people in the west create an alternative to capitalism and modernity? And if wealth isn't capital, what is real wealth? Well, first of all, real wealth is always your imagination, your attention. That's why these social media companies let you use the service for Free. You think it's free, but it's not. Because you're paying attention to these things. They're capturing your attention, and that's what they want. Right. They're absorbing your wealth. And that's why these companies are so valuable, because they're able to control your attention. And so the alternative is for you to reclaim your attention. And this could mean reading books, but it really means you focus more on human relations. You focus on being kind, open, and generous with the people around you. On, like, you know, getting to know your neighbors. I was at the Pacific palace sites in la. It was almost ridiculous because they live in, like, these $20 million to $100 million mansions and they don't even know their neighbors. I was talking to my friend, he's like, oh, yeah, I see in sports, Spielberg lives down the street. Like, well, are you guys friends? Like, no, I never met the guy. Like, they live like three houses down. I never met the guy. Oh, and Adam Sandler. Yeah, he lives. He's my next door neighbor. Never met the guy, never seen the guy. It's so weird. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah, next question. Yeah. US and China are declining empires. Who's rising? I think Israel is rising. I think Japan is rising. I think Poland could be rising. I think North Korea is rising. Iran could be rising. But places that are outside the capital system will rise because they have untapped potential. Places that are over capitalistic are just exhausted. Okay, all right. So sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, guys. We'll continue the questions and we'll have lots of time for questions. Okay. Okay. What is your perspective on the apparent contradiction between J.D. vance's isolationism and Trump's imperial ambitions? Do you see one faction of the Republican Party winning in the end? I actually don't see it as a battle between J.D. vance and Donald Trump. I see Donald Trump as trying to navigate opposing factions. Right. That's why J.D. vance is still around, because J.D. vance works for Donald Trump. Right. It was Donald Trump who picked Vijay Vance, and it's Donald Trump encouraging Vijay Vance to write a book and go on his book tour. Right. J.D. vance has been on a lot of podcasts. And honestly, I think how politics works is if JD Vance were really against Trump, Trump would have, you know. You know, I mean, like, there are lots of things Trump. Trump could have done, but I think, you know, Trump is a sort of person who tries to maintain as many options as possible, and JD Vance is maintaining an option for him. Okay. Guidance on where to build a family and home. Given the stage capitalism of Western nations are at and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. I think that if you have a family, God will protect you anywhere. I think, you know, rather than focus on, like, where should my family be? Focus first of all on having a family. I mean, you know, but also like, you know, just focus on loving your children and then God will take care of the rest. Okay. Where do you think the US China relationship is actually heading over the next 10 to 20 years? Is some form of long term coexistence realistic? I think China and the United States are not natural enemies. I think both the United States and China, China are interested in maintaining the current global order, especially China, because China is very export orientated. So China would like as much as possible to come to a detente with the United States. The problem is United States internal politics makes US Foreign policy very erratic. But I think that President Xi Jinping's visit next month, he's coming here to United States on September 24th. That will be a very good bellwether of where things will be headed. I think. I think there'll be a compromise of some sort. I think that things will turn around for, for US China relations. So. So we'll finish these questions and then we'll open up. Okay. Okay. As AI gets better, more of the things we consider human intellectual work, how do you think it will change our sense of purpose and what we value as a society? So I think AI is a dead end. I think there's a limit to AI and the reason why is AI is completely dependent on the global supply chain. Right. So you'd be able to access rare earths, lithium, silver, really cheaply from around the globe. But if these supply chains are breaking down, then it's very hard to take AI to the next level. And you ask yourself, in a time of global disruption, is AI really the best place to invest your money? So I think that we've basically reached the peak of AI and I'm not very optimistic about where AI will take us. Okay. If you could redesign high school education from scratch, what three changes would be best for preparing students for the next 20 years? So I would say the major problem with high school education is it's fundamentally about indoctrination. And it's trying to indoctrinate students in a very materialistic worldview. And I think that if you really want students to be engaged, if you really want students to ask good questions, to really want to learn, you need to teach them the occult. You need to teach them like, things like the Kabbalah, you need to focus on the great books, Homer, Dante. And you need to make school relevant, right? So you need to have. School needs to be a place where students can learn about the world as opposed to be separate from the world. You mentioned that we imagine reality. How can we determine that this imagination is sourced from God or Satan? In other words, how can we trust our imagination? I mean, I think that the imagination can only come from the monad. Okay. I think it's impossible to be imaginative in an evil way. And, you know, Percy Shelley talks about this, you know, poetry. If you're a poet, you're not being imaginative. You're being divinely inspired, right? So if it's a great piece of literature, if it's really beautiful, it comes from the monad. It's. It's an act of imagination. And you could also say Satan doesn't really exist. Like, what is Satan? I mean, in my own conception of the universe, only the monad exists. And evil is something that we conceptualize to explain the world we live in. But, you know, Darnell would say the fundamental principle of the universe is free will. And if we're imaginative, we will imagine imagination comes from a place of love. So it's almost impossible to be imaginative for, like, evil purposes. What do you think the role of an artist is during this time? The role of an artist is to be a prophet, Right? The role of an artist is to reveal the universe, reveal the truth, and to give hope to people, to explain what's going on, but also to show new possibilities to be a prophet. I think historically, all artists were considered profits of some sort. Now they're just in Brooklyn and drinking, like, $10 matches anyways. Okay. Yeah. What positive things can you say about this present time? That's the last question. I think this is a very positive time because what's happening in the world is forcing us to think deeply about who we are and what we want. Right? That's why we're all here tonight. So I think, like, 10 years ago, my lectures, people were like, this guy's insane. And, like, let's just ignore him because he's saying bad things and it's not comfortable, like, listening to him. Right? But now you're seeking answers. And by seeking answers, by seeking the truth, you're actually activating the humanity in you, okay? Your soul, the soul in you, the spark in you that was dormant for such a long time because things are so comfortable, it's now begging for answers. And so I think, like, this may lead to a spiritual awakening and an evolution of humanity. But this is something that is not obvious at some point, because this is something that we have to stick together. And together we will build the solution. Okay, awesome. Thank you. Those are all the questions. So we'll open it up to. Yeah, maybe we can pass the mic around so we can hear the questions in the video. Somebody have a question? Okay. Yeah, so let's just pass it around. Okay. Yeah. So thank you so much for giving this lecture. So you constantly return to Dante as kind of the paradigmatic great books author who kind of redefined human experience, provided a way to view reality in a positive way. Are there any other great books, especially written among, like, Following Modernity? I'm thinking of, like Ulysses or like In Search of Lost Time or books even written now that you see as providing kind of instruction manuals for our imagination to navigate the complexities of modern life? Yeah, that's a great question. So I really like the Russian novelists, so Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. Anna Karina, I think is really the best novel ever written. Anna Karenina. And then Dostoevsky is always wonderful. Corman Punishment, the Brothers Karaz Mazov. But really modern writers. Yeah. So I really like. What's his name? Who wrote Cathedral? Raymond Carver. Is that his name? I like Raymond Carver a lot. I think that his stories just force you to think very deeply and they're very emotional. So I recommend Raymond Carver. Cathedral. Yeah. Okay. Hey, Professor. So your argument is that Israel is the next big world power, money's flowing to Israel, etc. And you've always said that Israel has a high birth rate, three children per woman. But the demographic of Israel going forward, most births are towards the Hasidic Jews or the Palestinian Israelis, the Arab Israelis. Right. So that would lead to a very different Israel 50 years or 30 years from now. Yeah, yeah. So, you know, does that not change your Pax Judaic argument? Essentially? Right. So Israel, the Israel Israelis do not want Pax Judaica. Okay? Israel, the Israelis are perfectly happy with the way things are as they are. And unfortunately there are some miserable Jews, mainly about Lubovitch. I'm not sure if you guys know who, what about Lubrich is. But like, they're trying to usher in the end times and they're out of control. So what's happened happening is this sort of internal contradiction. It's being externalized. Right. So you guys may know, like the law of. Israelis are buying a property in the Mediterranean, in Greece and Cyprus, they're moving to Argentina. The reason why is they don't like the messianic Jews, Right. So rather than fight them, which would lead to civil war, there's like, screw this, we'll just move elsewhere. Right? So they're moving to Argentina, they're moving to the Mediterranean, they're moving to Australia, these places. But what this means is that these people are leaving, okay? People from Tel Aviv are leaving. That means that Israel becomes even more messianic, right? The satellites have of having more power. And so I see Israel transforming from a democracy to a theocracy in the next few years. I think this election October will be very telling. It'll be very interesting to see what happens. But the idea of Israel as a democracy can't last. Okay. For Pakistan Judaica to take shape, what has to happen is you have to have a priest class, the theocracy, and you bring in like millions of immigrants from India and they become basically your slave class. And that's what they want to. And that's what they want to create. Is that what transnational capital wants as well? They want in Israel with like a police class and a peasant class. Yeah, because that, that's how I make the most money. Right? So like Libya is destroyed, Syria's destroyed, Iraq's destroyed. The GCC will be destroyed very, very quickly. Right. So now I repopulate it with like Indians because like India, first of all, they have a booming population of young people who are just going to revolt if you just let them stay in the country. Right. So you need to remove them and send them elsewhere. Also, Hinduva is a growing ideology in India which calls for Indian Zionism. And so there's a lot of alignment between India and Israel. In fact, there's only four countries, four countries in the world where Israel has a net favorability rating. Okay. And one of them actually is India, I think the other are like Ghana and Nigeria. Okay. So yeah, right. Thank you for your lecture. I'm interested to learn more about how Kabbalah was co opted by the west because from my understanding it was developed in Andalusia, Islamic Spain, and then spread out into Christian Europe and now it's influencing the occult and secret societies. So how did Kabbalah become part of Christian Zionism and what other occult strains you think should be studied to both understand the world and as an alternative to create something new. So Kabbalah is interesting because what Kabbalah is doing, really, if you think about it, it's taking like Egyptian Hermeticism and Gnosticism and applying to the Bible. Okay, so what makes the Kabbalah, distinct from, say, Gnosticism and Hermeticism is. And Neoplatonism is that for them, the mind of God is not really decipherable. You can't really understand the mind of God. But for Kabbalahs, they're like, well, the Bible is the word of God, right? And the Bible is comprised of Hebrew Alphabet. Then we can imagine that the Hebrew Alphabet and numbers, numerology, are the fundamental tools that God uses to create the universe. So if we are able to interpret the Hebrew Alphabet and numerology in a certain way, then we're able to construct, reconstruct the very fabric of the universe. Okay? That's what makes Kabbalah distinct from other things. If you think about it, that's a really powerful way of understanding the universe, because if you can actually figure out numerology and the Hebrew Alphabet, then you can actually predict the future. And that's why the Kabbalah is so enticing for people. And there are practices of Kabbalah who are able to project, predict the future. You look at Chabat Lubovitch and Chabad Lubrich. I'm not sure if you guys know about the history of Chabat Lubovitch, but it was founded in modern day Russia. And for most of its history, it was persecuted by the first the Russian Czar and then the Soviets. And it was. It should have been extinct many, many decades ago. It's a very small movement. And now it's everywhere, okay? It's in Ukraine. It's very close to Putin. It's very close to Trump in Argentina. He's actually a Chabad Lubovitch member. Okay? So from their perspective, it's a miracle, okay? It's the vine. How they were able to survive such persecution and now grow and become so, so powerful. And they believe they did so because of their understanding of the Kabbalah. And. But they're understanding the Kabbalah is also messianic and they call for the end times. Okay? And they're so energized. I mean. I mean, the history of the Kabbalah, Sorry, the history of Chabat Lubrich, it is so mesmerizing if you actually look deep, go deep into it. Okay? So, but I'll tell you one story. Have you guys ever asked yourself how Mark Zuckerberg became a billionaire? Because Facebook, it's not a original idea. There are lots of, like, Facebook concepts around that at the time. When did Facebook come to dominate. Dominate social media? And the answer is Mark Zuckerberg was able to take Harvard intellectual property because Facebook is Harvard intellectual property. And he was able to ignore Harvard privacy rules. Right, because, like, Facebook is, like, you shouldn't be able to access that person's face and, like, address and, like, personal details, but they were able to do so. So where did Mark Zuckerberg get this power? Okay, well, when Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard, he was part of Harvard Chabad, which is the campus offshoot of Chabad Lubovitch. He was a freshman when he joined Harvard Chabad. The two seniors who were part of Harvard about at the time were Natalie Portman and Jared Kushner. The faculty advisor was Natalie Portman. Yeah. You didn't know that? Natalie Portman and Jerry Kuster go way back. Anyway, the faculty advisor was Alan Dershowitz. The patron of Harald Habat was Larry Summers. Okay, so you're like, wait a minute. What's going on here? Well, okay, here's another really interesting story. You can just Google, okay? But Mark Zuckerberg said that his parents had three daughters before they had him. They really wanted a son. So what did they do? They went to ask for a blessing from Rabbi Schneerson, who was head of Hamat Lubovitch. Okay. And Rebbe Snaren says, yes, I will bless you. And then they had Mark Zuckerberg. You think, okay, that's a nice story, but, like, if you read the Bible, it's not a nice story. It's actually a very messianic story, because who in the Bible couldn't have children and then ask for God for a blessing? And they had had a. Had a child. Well, it was Abraham and Sarah who had Isaac. Right? And then Abraham sacrificed Isaac to God. But it was also the prophet Samuel, Samuel's parents, who couldn't conceive, so they begged God and said, look, look, if you give us a child, we will make this child your servant. And then they conceived and had Samuel, and then Samuel became the prophet who anointed King David. Okay, so if you know the Bible, you know, like, when Mark Zuckerberg tells his story, it's coded language. It means that he's a servant of God. All right? If you look at what he's doing, like creating the metaverse, like, why would you do that? Right? You're okay, so there are a lot of really strange things about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, and you can't explain it just using venture capital's sense. For example, why is Mark Zuckerberg the. He has complete control over the company. Why is a Venture capitalist. Would you allow a 19 year old, 20 year old to have complete control over Facebook? You guys know this, right? He doesn't have majority equity, but he has majority control. He controls, he has certain shares that gives him total control of Facebook. Like, why would you, why would you allow that to happen? Right. So there's a lot of strange things behind Facebook. Okay, now why do I say this? Because in 2016, what happened? The Cambridge Analytical Scandal happened. Right? Right. What's Cambridge Analytical Scandal? Basically, this company was able to access 50 million Facebook users personal data and then create micro targeting that allowed the Trump team to sway the election in the favor. Right. You guys know this, right? Okay. Head of Facebook was Mark Zuckerberg, who was head of the Trump social media team responsible for this micro targeting. You guys know Kushner, Jared Kushner? Okay, right. So you're like, wait a minute here, what's going on? Right. But you just kind of connect the dots, you get a really interesting story. All right. Did you read the article yesterday about Dario Amadei's wife, CEO of Anthropic? His wife tried to raise money from Jeffrey Epstein for a female pornographic site and she dated Sergey Grim. Yeah. It's a very small circle of people, right? It's a very small circle of people. You're always able to connect these people together. Jeffrey Epstein is another person who is probably also. Along with Lubovitch. I just have a really quick follow up. You still recommend children and young people to study the occult and great books, and you talk about the importance of artists as prophets. So how do you think young people can use these ideas that philosophers and, and intellectuals, entrepreneurs have used to spread ideas for good and to use the occult and philosophy to create new creative ideas? Okay. So I think people often look to me for ideas, but that's not how these things work. Once you connect back to the Monad, the monad will show you the path forward. Because we're here for our own individual experience. Right. We all came here for a purpose. And what's important is to know our purpose, discover our telos, and also to constantly connect to the Monad, to seek guidance. So my advice is to open yourself up to the Monad, to the universal consciousness, and that will show you the path. Looking to me won't solve anything. Okay. All right. Can you keep on passing it? Yep. Had a different question, but I think I have a better one. Okay. When you connect to the Monad, what is your path? What is my path? Yeah, my path is to be a teacher, right? I mean, like from my life, I asked myself, what are things that I do that are smooth? What are things that I do which is not smooth? If it's smooth, it means I'm probably following the path the more than at once for me. If it's, if it's not going well, then it's probably not the path I want. So what I've learned is to trust the universe more. Right. I'm in New York City because the more not watch me here. Right. And there was actually a possibility I didn't get in New York City because I'm traveling with my son. And I didn't know this, but United States, you need a travel ladder to travel. And I didn't have a travel ladder. But. And there's a real fear that I missed my flight. And, but, and I think before maybe five years ago, I would have like, you know, been really anxious. But, but I told myself, okay, if I get, if I get in the United States, it's because someone wants me here. If I don't get in, it's because the one that doesn't want me here. So. So I'm trusting the universe more. Right. One more different question is, I don't know if you've moved out of China yet, but you had mentioned that once you do, you may be able to share more about like what you're seeing in there. I don't know if you're able to share, you know, what you're seeing on the ground in. Of terms China. Yeah. I just think that the situation in China is hopeless because you have this leadership in place that is very arrogant, very indifferent, and just very stubborn. And the people are so materialistic. You know, if, you know, you can't connect back to the monad, if you don't actually believe in the monad. And I think that in the future, because of all these calamities, those who are spiritual in nature will be most able to survive the coming crises. And the Chinese people are not at all spiritual. The Japanese are, but the Chinese are not. Yeah. Can I ask question first question. Can you give us a book list? Not now, but maybe later. I tried to read this question on substack, but I haven't. I know you have great books that you talked about, but do you have a. Can you, can you give us a more, a bigger, a more comprehensive book list later? Yeah, yeah. I mean, like, like, like I've taught the great books before, but I would say the most important thing is just to start reading books you enjoy reading. And that doesn't necessarily mean you have to read the great books, but it just means that you have to get in the process of reading every day for an hour. Yeah, I am doing that. But I still look forward to your book list. I started the war on Panaponia. That is difficult word for me. I mean, I highly recommend man, the Russian novelist. So Toy Story and Dostoevsky. I have read. Read some. Okay. Can I ask another question? Okay. He said that China is going to close up, repeat the history. It's going to close its borders. Yeah, But what will happen to China after Xi? He's 74 years old. I believe what will happen after him? Because after Mao died. Sorry. After Mao died, things changed. So. So one strange thing that I don't think, like, people appreciate is how long these guys can live for. All right, like, Trump is 80, right? And like, I was talking to some friends in Los Angeles, and they were convinced, like, he can't. He cannot finish his term. You know, he's going to die in office or he was forced to resign. And like, these guys, they're where they are because they have this steel determination to. They love power. And so if you put them in a position of power, they can live for a long, long time. Right? So look at someone like B. Biden, who was. I mean, like, the guy was senile. I mean, like, the guy. Brain did not function, but he was able to, like, finish his term, right? I mean, like, like, like, like in the year 2020. And we. We had a bet. Are you. Is Biden able to finish his term, given his medical ailments? And I think most people would be like, no, he won't be able to finish his term and come out like, Harris will. Will be the first female President of the United States. I think most people would say that. People who are in the know, right? People who knew his predicament would say that, but he finished his term. So I think you. I think it's hard to appreciate how once you. Once you're in that position, whether you be Putin or Xi or Trump, you never want to let go. You want to cling on until they snatch it from you. But they will die eventually. Says who? How do you know? How do you know they'll die? How do you know that? I think modern technology will surprise you. I think nowadays with the idea of, like, blood transfusion and organ transplants. And remember, they have access to the most advanced technology in the world. I didn't say they will never die, but I'm just saying, like, we don't know when they will die. And I think they will live a lot longer than you assume they will live. Okay, but, but, but, but. We'll continue. Yes. You use the word monad and God a lot. What makes you believe in. Do you believe in God? A God? Some. Or do you use, like, God and monad interchangeably? And. And I guess what. What makes you believe? Yeah, I mean, like, so for me, why I like the idea of the monad is it explains a lot of issues that I couldn't explain before. So, for example, human consciousness is something that I could never explain before. Right. And I did a lot of research in neuroscience. I know about how memory forms and how the brain works and synapse and all that, but it was never really fulfilling. It didn't really explain to me what was going on. And now the monad, an idea, like our consciousness is scattered across different dimensions, and our ideas, our intuition comes to us from the monad. That, I think makes a lot more sense than the traditional neuroscience materialistic perspective. So for me, it's just satisfying to think that there's a monad. And so I just went through life not being able to answer a lot of questions. And the monad helps me answer all the questions. And emotionally, in my heart, I believe it's right. Right. Because at the end of the day, you can only trust your heart. You can only trust yourself. And anyone who tells you not to trust yourself, trust the science. Well, that person is probably Tony Fauci. Right. And, like, you shouldn't trust the guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Lots of questions at the back. Okay, we'll just pass it around. Okay, thank you, professor, for the lecture. So across multiple podcasts and in this lecture too, you kind of alluded to, like, a Bronze Age type collapse in the next 50 years. And what really kind of like, especially if reality kind of plays according to the model that you built out, you use the term Bronze Age collapse instead of something like one. Like, there have been great dips in history, throughout history, like the Great Depression or after World War II, but you kind of like comparing the next 50 years to the Bronze Age collapse that ushered, like, around half a millennia of dark ages. First of all, what's the probability, in your honest opinion, of that actually happening? And number two, like, what will actually happen that you compare to the Bronze Age collapse and not to something like the Great Depression or like, after World War II? Yeah, so I think, like, the. My logic is very simple. Right now, there are 8 billion people in the world, and these 8 billion people, they all want to live, right? They all want to survive. The problem is we are able to support 8 billion people because of access to cheap energy, mainly from the Middle east. Okay, if you remove the GCC from the equation, like let's pretend the GCC doesn't even exist, well, you would lose access to fertilizer. Not all fertilizer, but a lot of fertilizer. You would lose access to cheap energy. Then there's a possibility of fact famine in Africa, of social revolution throughout Europe. Okay? So what people don't appreciate about the Bronze Age collapse is things were perfectly normal until they weren't. Okay? If you lived during the Bronze Age, you would think, wow, we live in a perfect world because everything is interconnected. And you assume that this connection leads to resilience, it leads to dexterity, but it's the opposite. It actually leads to fragility. And so if there's one problem that arises somewhere, it cascades across the entire world. And look again, I hate to say this but like you've got 8 billion people and their only resources enough to support 2 billion people. And this includes water and food, right? So what are people going to do? You have kids and you're in Africa and like there's not enough food and water, what do you do? Well, you migrate, right? You migrate, you join bands of pirates, bandits, because that's the best way to survive. Then you become an army, right? Then you're trying to overwhelm the defense of Europe, which leads to wars. This is what happened during the Bronze Age. Migration is going to be a huge problem in this world over the next 10 years because there's not enough food to feed people. Famine is going to be a huge issue and this will lead to war. This is not World War 3. This is the breakdown of civilization. And you know when this happens, when people don't have enough to eat, human decency goes out the window, okay? Like I don't care that you're a human being. You have food, you have water and I need it from you. So I'm going to keep kill you. It's either you, it's a dog eat dog, right? Do you think that's engineered too? Excuse me? I think it's the path of least resistance, right? It's like I don't want it to happen, but like if it happens, I have a bunker in New Zealand, I have a helicopter that can transport me to somewhere else. I have this mansion in the Pacific palace sides and I can build a fortress. So it's a path of least resistance. I think These people in charge, the problem is not that they're evil. The problem is, like, they're just. Yeah, yeah. Do you have a vivid picture in your head, like, how this will look like? Because I remember you talking about it in a podcast where you believe that in the next 50 years, like, humanity, there will be, like, two sects of humanity. One will believe and AI as a God, and the other one will not reject AI as a God. Is that a part of your model of how this collapse will look like? And also, how would you survive in this world that you envision? I think what's going to happen is just a process of constant change, constant revolution, the breakdown of social order. And I think that those who will thrive or those who survive are those who are deeply spiritual, those who believe that they're connected to the monad and that they're here for a purpose. And their purpose is often to help others. And these people will become leaders, and then people will congregate towards these people, and then the monat will show them the path forward. So I can't visualize for you what it will be like because, like, every year will be different. I mean, like, imagine. Just imagine the amount of change we've had these past six months. It's been crazy, right? And so the pace of change, the acceleration is just off the charts. So I can't tell you what the world will be like over the next 50 years because every year will be different. But I can tell you, like, to reclaim your spiritual heritage, like, like. Like to remember, like, you do come from the monad, that each of us come from a monad, but we. But most of us just forget that because it is easier for us. Okay, thank you so much. Okay. Hi, Professor. I'm just here to wonder. I'm asking if you've currently or previously the national draft. You've alluded to it many times. You talked about it a lot. I just don't see how it's feasible. I'm 22 years old. I was previously enlisted to go into the Marines before tearing my rotator cuff. I have a lot of friends that are actively in the military. You know, there was recently a news story where people are throwing themselves off of ships currently. I mean, I just don't see how it's feasible how a draft could possibly happen. Everybody my age is proper is currently being propagandized to haters to hate America. How are they going to use us as a tool to work for them? Okay, so I think national draft doesn't necessarily mean going the Army. Okay, but imagine a scenario where, okay, you have a collapse, the bubble collapses, the private credit collapses and a lot of wealth, okay, is just evaporated. Right? So young people nowadays think that they have a cushion, which is their parents. A parents have a few million dollars in property and in the stock market and they think like, okay, well you know, like worst case scenario, my parents will bail me out. And so. But like let's imagine a scenario where the stock market collapses, the economy is in tatters now, people are desperate. Now you have a Great Depression scenario. Right, and what's the solution to the Great Depression? Basically the national draft. Right. Basically jobs for everyone. And then, and then sending everyone to World War II. And then when World War II happened, because of 10 years of like desperation, anxiety, people were happy to go to war. Right? So yeah, you're like, right now I'm not, there's no way I go to war. But like five years from now things could be very different. On the same platforms that Zuckerberg owns, there's constantly being reels pushed. We're going to be used as drone bait. You know, I just, I don't see. I feel like everybody would rather go to jail than even serve in a non violent part of the military. But you're just saying because of that, you know, we're going to be desperate. We'll work for them anyways. I think so. I think if there's a situation where you either work for the government in infrastructure spending or what, sorry, infrastructure building or whatever, you know, or you know, be homeless while you would work for the government. And that's what I think the national draft is. National draft should be a national works program. My last question, 22 years old. I'm inspired by you. I would like to start a family. I see that it is the greatest means of purpose, but I'm concerned if I get pulled away from the beginning of my family. So I don't have a question. But you know what, that's a great question. And I keep on saying this but like, like if you just do your purpose, the universe will, will pave the way for you. So like when I was like 10 years ago, I was unemployed, I had no real job prospects, but I felt I fell in love with a woman. And as a manifestation, expression of our love, we have children and you know, this was a time when there was no way I could support a child. And after we had a child, I wrote a book and this book got me a job and this job allowed me to put videos on YouTube and each time we had a child, it seemed like the universe smiled upon us even more. Okay, so it's an act of faith. Having family is an act of faith. And so, like, if you just say, well, I mean, like, if I do a cost benefit analysis, I should have a family, you get nowhere. But if you're like, you know what if I have a family? If you do that, if you do that, then what happens is like, oh my God, now I must do what's necessary in order to raise a family. Then you will it, then you manifest it, and then your life becomes different. Thank you. All right, sorry. So what time is it? Okay, so maybe another 10 minutes. I need you to ask me really quickly. Okay. All right, sorry. Let's continue. Yes. Hi, Professor Zhang, I was just wondering because you had said that your view of these secret societies is a non linear evolution. It's a broken chain for secret societies. Yeah. Since they seem to share so many common interests since the Eleusinian mystery days up until now, do you think that it could be the collective unconscious kind of working through people and you're wearing the face of these organizations to get to some kind of goal? And, and with that, how do you reconcile negative forces like this in the collective unconscious with your beliefs regarding the Monad being all good and whatnot? Yeah. Okay, so there are different theories out there, okay. And one theory is there are certain individuals whose, whose spiritual practice is so great that they're able to transcend and they're able to embed themselves in the universal consciousness. And then these people are able to communicate with others, and then they're able to incarnate and influence worldly affairs. Okay? And these people, like in the past we've given names to them like as, like Satan or, you know, devils or Nephilim or whatever. Okay? So, and I think there's a lot of validity to this theory. And the question then is, okay, then how can we reconcile this with the monad? And what Donnie would say is, if the Monad truly loves us, the Monad's gift to us is free will. So you can choose to do whatever you want. You can choose to create this world that we live in, which is very. Which is very technologically advanced, materialistic, but which has led to tremendous human suffering. We choose to do this or we can choose to create another world. But for the imagination to truly be effective, there has to be complete freedom. So I think that to say these people are evil and they are manipulating human events for the wrong things, that's how the Monad would say, the monad would say, if these people can choose to do these things, you can choose to do other things as well. And even though they seem to have all the power, your imagination is a true power. So if you have faith in your imagination, then that will lead, that will be your light. Okay, And a follow up question based on that imagination, what is your opinion on plotinuses, procluses, and eventually, like George Barclay's view of idealism as a metaphysical framework of the world and the projecting of the world rising from consciousness leading to matter rather than matter leading, leading to consciousness? I think that makes a lot more sense than matter leading to consciousness. Okay. I think the universe is consciousness. And this mature world, it's assimilation or it's a delusion that we've created for ourselves. That explains a lot more than the reverse. Where like, so, for example, like, how do you explain consciousness? Right. If you just use the emergent materialistic phrase framework, you cannot explain consciousness. And that's why they don't even bother trying to answer the question of where our consciousness comes from. Okay. Okay, thank you. Thank you. All right. Hi, Professor, Great to meet in person. Two questions. Number one, as a. Could you ask just one, please? Yeah, sorry. Yeah, we're short on time. Yeah. Okay. As a fellow teacher, what tips and pedagogical practices would you recommend to somebody who works at the middle school level where they don't have as much of a vocabulary as high school and where you use narration, storytelling as methodologies? What other techniques would you recommend where there may be language barriers? Okay, so I would say the three most powerful words you can ever utter as a teacher is I am wrong. If you do that every single day, I guarantee your students will be very different, regardless of the age group or the language barrier. If you just say every day, if you make a conscious effort to say, say I am wrong. Okay. What that does is it models self reflection and humility and self forgiveness in the student. Because if the teacher can say, I am wrong, that gives permission to the student to say, oh, I can be wrong as well. And I should just accept I can be wrong and then learn from my mistakes and improve. Not the greatest gift you can ever give to your students. Okay, great. Thank you. Okay. All right. Yeah, back, back there and then over here. Yeah, over here. Okay. Professor, can I ask a question? Yeah, go ahead. Thank you so much for everything that you do. Regarding dollar what are the few key consequential events that you foresee happening and what does the replacement look like? The US Dollar? Yeah. So JD Vance has come out and said that he thinks the US Dollar as the global reserve currency, it's a bad idea. And a lot of people are saying, well, I think they're trying to signal the US Dollar is not going to be the global reserve currency anymore. And no one wants to be the global reserve currency because as I pointed out before, it's a stone thing to do. Like, why would you want to be the global reserve currency? You have no control over your currency. It leads to financial speculation, and then you have to invest a lot in the military. So no one wants to be the global reserve currency. And so I think by default there'll be a basket in place. Already you have these European banks saying, you know, we'll start using the Chinese renminbi more. So I think the US Dollar will still be around because it's a default option and there's no other. There's no other alternative. And so it's not that US Dollar will be replaced. It's more like you have total global economic collapse, right? So the currency is no, irrelevant because nations are no longer able to trade with each other. Okay, so the plumbing will break and there will be fireworks. I think. I think we're heading towards a calamity beyond anyone's imagination. I think if you just look at the price progress of things these past six months, it's just astonishing. I mean, like, can you imagine six months before we'd be in a room and saying how United States is in a war against Iran? Even today, we don't know why this war started. And the United States has absolutely no strategy to win this war, but the United States refuses to withdraw from this war. It's the most silly thing ever. So I think, like, the stupidity and the arrogance of the leaders today, it's just beyond anyone's imagination. Okay. All right. Hi, Professor. So again, right, I just want to tie into this individual's question in front of me, like, finding the source of wealth, right? There's like the Bronze Age collapse analogy. My thing is, right, like, I'm learning about these AI data centers and the amount of water that they consume, right? And so if we understand, right, like, like you, you place a lot of emphasis on our wealth being imagination, and that's a, that's a major part of it. But I think, like, in the, you know, the physical world, I feel like a lot of our wealth and especially in a Bronze Age collapse scenario would come from the land and the amount of crops that we were able to grow from the land and provide for Those people around us, Right. And it's like. I mean, that's just like my conspiracy theory. It's like they're consuming so much water to deny a level of wealth that the average individual could get from being able to produce the crops that they have, you know, for themselves. So, like, how much importance would you place on personal and familial gardening and, like, plant cultivation as a way to survive what is coming? So I think most people will die not because they lack access to food and water. I think it's just because they cannot accept that the world is collapsing around them. They're so focused, they're so pigheaded about the world. Like, you know, they're so invested in the world that they refuse to accept change is possible. And, you know, like, listen, if you just talk to ordinary middle class Americans, they're like, oh, well, you know, when Trump leaves office, things will go back to normal. They literally believe this, and, like, how can you actually believe this? But they literally believe this. And so they choose to put their heads in the sand. So when that happens, they'll just break down mentally, and then they'll just die. Does that make sense? Yeah. It's not a question of, like, you know, like. Like, can you access food and water? Because, like, if you want to, you can still access food and water. It's just, like, people would rather die than accept that they're wrong. Okay. Yeah. And I thought that'd be a lot of people. Yeah. Okay. This room isn't like this. We are. We're, like, trying to. This room is getting our head out of, like, the same. Exactly, exactly. You know, you've been awakened. You're out of the matrix now. Right, right. Okay. So sorry. Yeah. Up here. Yes. Okay. Dante says free will is foundational. How does that influence your understanding of these, like, personal tragedies you see in the news? Like, for example, a mother with postpartum depression killing her children, or a kid that's been on SSRIs his whole life going crazy. Like, how do we as a society come to, like, a shared understanding about those things? What do we take away from that? Yeah, that's a really good question. So, again, we all come here for our own individual experience, and why we've come is something that is unique to us. So, for example, for most of my life, I've struggled with why I had the childhood that I had, because, you know, I grew up as a poor immigrant in Toronto, where I suffered a lot of racism and bullying. My family was very, very poor. I mean, like, they're still very, very poor. And I grew up in a culture, a Cantonese culture that I felt was very into anti intellectual. And for the longest time, for decades, I suffered from depression. I felt traumatized because of my childhood in Toronto and my education at Yale. I just was very angry and depressed at the world. And I was like, why am I here? Like, what purpose does it serve anyone for me to suffer like this? There can't be a God because no God will would be this evil to make me suffer. Like, I just felt like my life was just pointless and there was no God. There couldn't be a God because it was so chaotic. But now, looking back at my life, I felt like the only path of my own personal enlightenment, my own personal salvation, was through this path. You know, if I really wanted to like, open my eyes and see the truth, I needed an intense period of personal suffering and personal questioning. And there's really no other way, right? I mean, like, like, like how, how am I able to be so creative? And I think that my creativity comes from these decades of personal trauma. And I'm not saying personal trauma leads to creativity. Okay, I'm not saying that. And say, like, I'm not saying go traumatize your kids, man. Okay, I'm not saying that. But I'm saying, like, we all came for a purpose, and this purpose determines a lot of things that happen in our life. And, you know, I think that I came with a specific purpose of trying to enlighten others. That means, first of all, seeing self enlightenment, and that can be only done through personal tragedy and personal trauma. So I don't know why these things happen to people, but I would say, I would say if they look deep within themselves, they will find a deeper meaning behind all these tragedies. I think a lot of people in this room, and I know certainly for myself, have gone through something traumatic that made them ask more questions about the world. And that's what opens them up to your ideas. That's right. So I don't know how to get through to people who haven't had that. Like, it's like talking to a robot. They just can't hear you out. Well, I mean, you know, I've been a teacher for my entire adult life, and for the longest time, I was not reaching people. People thought I was crazy. I mean, imagine like, you know, 10 years ago, you watch my YouTube videos, you would think I'm insane, you know, know, and, and. But I kept on doing what I'm doing because for me, it's not about reaching others. It's about learning things for myself. Like, I have this. Like, this passion for truth seeking, for my own personal enlightenment. And what others do and think doesn't really matter to me. But because I had this passion for truth seeking that's allowed me to reach many people when the time is appropriate. So I would just say do what is right in your heart, and what is right in your heart is to pursue the truth. Because I could imagine myself working a job. I didn't like saying things that I didn't believe, even though that's what most people. People do. But that's why I've been poor my life, because I'd rather be poor than to live the lie. So a lot of things are just a personal choice. And what others choose, I think are not really relevant. Okay, Sorry, but some of the back. Yes. Hello, Professor. My name is Aldemar. I'm from Colombia. I live in a very poor neighborhood in Jackson Heights in Queens. And there is a lot of kids and youth. They don't have religion studies in their schools. Fathers, moms, they work two jobs, seven days a week. I'm dealing with something. I want to spread the word of faith and hope. But how do I overcome the fact that I feel judged by my religion? When my religion tells me that if you don't behave well, then you go to hell, you have to behave good in order to go to heaven. So my question would be, how do I overcome that bridge of me going to people and say, hey, there is hope. That is love to share. I don't know if I make myself. Yeah, I understand. Thank you so much. So I don't think it's important to convince others. I think it's just important to live the truth yourself. And then when you do that, what happens is others will naturally gravitate towards you. Right. If that makes sense. Right. So rather than try to convince others, you just live the truth yourself, then others will come find you. Okay. Thank you so much. All right, over here. Hi, Professor. So we'll do three more questions. Okay. Because, like, the food's ready and. Yeah, yeah. Knowing what you know about history and where the world seems to be heading, has that changed the way you are raising your own child? What are the things that you are most intentional as a parent? Yeah, that's a great question. So when. When I first had my child, he's outside eating right now, and he's just doesn't care. I thought I knew how to raise a child perfectly because I've been working in education for the past 20 years. And I read a lot of books. I knew all about neuroscience. And then what I realized is the child is not yours. The child is from God, and you're blessed to be with. With the child. But the child has come with his or own purpose, his or own telos, and he or she is going to seek a path that is right for him or her. And you can provide some support, but you cannot actually direct the child in the way that you want. And if you try to control the child is going to lead to a lot of unhappiness because the child will be unhappy, and the child will make you unhappy. So one thing that I've learned to do is basically trust the child and let him or her seek the path that he or she wants. And so my child, who's 8, he doesn't speak any English because, well, I mean, he doesn't want to learn English. Right. I speak English. If you wanted to learn English, he would ask me, can you teach me English? He's never done that. Right. So I've learned to let go and see each child as a child of God and not as my child. Awesome. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Any more questions at the back? Thank you. Thank you. Hi. Thank you for doing this. I just wanted to know, in your life, when you said there was, like, 10 years ago or so, you had no job and whatnot, was it. Did you. Could you have a job that was comfortable and you decided to not take that route because it wasn't true to you? Basically, I'm trying to say, like, would you have settled for comfort had it been possible back then, or you kind of didn't want to in order to pursue your. Yeah, that's a great question. So I'm very strange. All right. And I think that what makes me unique is all my entire life, I've absolutely refused to compromise because, you know, I went to Yale. I'm a very good writer. I'm a very good communicator, and I could have easily set up for a corporate job or done public relations. I mean, I could have also, in China, I could have also, like, helped students apply to Yale University. And that's very lucrative. But I just chose to live a life of poverty rather than compromise, rather than do things I don't like. And a lot of the reason why is when I do things I don't like, I can't sleep. So the most miserable six months of my life was when I was working for the United nations in Afghanistan. And if you ever worked for the United Nations. Okay. It is like, the best job possible. It is the easiest job possible because, like, no one actually does any work and you're there collecting a huge paycheck and it's very prestigious, and, you know, they give you this blue passport and it's very, you know, it feels really good. But I couldn't sleep because I knew that what I was doing came at the cause of the local Afghan people because the local African people were, like, starving and I was making like, you know, six figures. Figures a year, and I was having, like, you know, lunch at a restaurant that was five stars. And so I couldn't live with myself. I mean, like, I literally could not sleep the entire time. I was grinding my teeth. I had anxiety. So after that, I just learned, like, I rather suffer than betray myself. And I think that's actually true for everyone. It's just like, maybe others have, like, higher tolerance than I do. Could you sleep while suffering at that time? Excuse me? Could you sleep when you were sleep? I could not sleep. I literally could not sleep. I just rolled in bed all the time and I hid it myself. Like, my entire body was shaking the entire time because I knew this was evil. Okay? The fact that you were in Afghanistan and, like, people here were starving and, like, you were collecting, you know, this six figure paycheck. And also you were part of this evil occupation force, right? Because the Americans weren't there to help the Afghan people. They were there to do drug smuggling. Drug smuggling. When the Americans went in, opium production went like that. Okay. During the. During the Taban, you didn't have any opium production. Then the Americans came and they basically facilitated open production so that the Sackler family could produce their fentanyl drugs, the opiates, which led to suicides, a suicide epidemic throughout the country. Okay. So. And I knew this because you could see it. And so I couldn't sleep at all. And. And I was so relieved after I quit. Thank you. Yeah. Okay, one last question, guys. Okay. Over here. Okay. And that's it. But it's been great. Thank you so much for coming. One last question. The last question. Okay. Yes, go ahead. Good evening, Professor. So I had a friend who showed me your YouTube channel a few months back. And when I came across across the Plato's Allegory of the cave, it was hell. What kind of advice would you have for somebody going through that kind of realization that none of it's real? I would say that's what waking up looks like. You know, you go through hell, right? Because remember when Plato talks About the algorith, the cave. He's not like, you know, the guy walks in a light and he's like, happy. Happy. No, no, he's going for hell. I wept a lot. You. You wave. You. You know what's happening. The occultist would say you're going through a spiritual alchemy, but the neuroscientist would. Would just say you're going through somatic reconnections. And it's a very. It's a. It's a hellish process. It's. It's. It's like your brain is just literally reconfiguring itself to reconceive the world in a new way. It is hellish, and it is painful, but once you go for it, you can never go back, and then you're happier for it. I think that's why a lot of people don't go through this process, because they know that to see things in this way, even though it's a truth, it means basically abandoning everything that you've known and embracing the unknown. And they don't want to go through this. And that's why I think we should be sympathetic or tolerant or respectful. Right? And just say, like, you know, just because I went through it doesn't mean you have to go through it. But once you go through it, then you can never go back. And you know how the world works. So, you know, this is just a phase, a stage in our lives, and we are eternal. Our souls are eternal. And when we come back at a later stage, we will be. We will be much more enlightened. We will be much more happier, and we won't have to go through the same process again. Okay. All right. Thank you. Okay. So thanks so much, guys. It's been wonderful. Thanks so much, Kathy.