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And the game you're playing, of course, is to win attention from your parents. And to do so, depending on who your siblings are, you might use different strategies, including doing well in school or being a pain in the ass. Unfortunately, my kids choose to be a pain in the ass, okay? Yes. The parents are playing another game, which is social. Social. Social. Social. Social. And it's about prestige, right? So they're competing against other parents to have the best family possible, all right? And then, not only do you play a game at home, but you also play games at school, right? 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Then you go to work, where you're competing in order to win the favor of your boss and to be popular among your colleagues. Then you play a city game where you live in Beijing and you want Beijing to be better than maybe Shanghai or Shenzhen. And then you play a game of maybe a nation where you want China to be stronger than Japan. So as you can see, every single day you're playing multiple games, even though you may not recognize it. And again, what's important is the game that is most important to you is the game which you are most close to, the one that you can see in front of you. Does that make sense? But this is also true for nations as well, where we think that the game is between nations. 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It will basically destroy the Republican Party. And so that is your strategy. And if you think about it, it actually makes a lot of sense. The Republicans have a different strategy, which is this war may be unpopular and this war may make America lose, but it's okay. Why? Because in a time of war, the president has something called the Emergency Powers Act. Okay? Emergency powers. Emergency powers allows the president to essentially suspend the constitution and to suspend or delay elections. Also, the Republicans want to pass something called Safe America Act, okay? The Safe America Act, which means that if you are a voter, you must present ID in order to vote. Okay? And you think that this is, well, reasonable. But historically, the idea of checking ID is a way to discriminate against minorities. 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And that's traditionally how racism was enforced in America. Okay? So, in other words, the Republicans have many different strategies of either cheating or manipulating the elections. They could also, I have to say this, but if the war is going really badly, what they will do is call up a national giraffe and cancel the elections. Okay? All right? So, these are two different strategies going on. But as you can see, this is not really about America defeating Iran. This is really about the Democrats or Republicans trying to obtain power and keep it. Okay? All right. But what's important for us to understand is that it's not just about the Democrats and Republicans at war with each other. There's actually a much deeper divide in America. Okay? And this divide is a conflict between the elite and the counter elite. 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And he argues that what leads to the election is the election. What leads to civil war is that you have too many elite who want to be the ones in power. Power is a zero sum game. And therefore, when you have elite overproduction, they have to go to war against each other in order to have the power. Okay? And so, what's going on? Who are the elite and who is the counter elite? Well, I mean, to put it very simply, the Democrats represent the elite and the Republicans represent the counter elite. Okay? So, basically, the elite is the empire. And counter elite is MAGA, which is America First. And so, they have two different ideals for America. The empire is to maintain a current global order, right? And MAGA is to retreat back into the Western Hemisphere and focus on Americans' core national interests. All right? 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And AI. Okay? So, in other words, Wall Street are the main backers of the current elite. And then Silicon Valley are the main backers of the counter elite. Okay? So, these people are interested in maintaining the status quo. They are interested in a revolution. All right? And so, this is the main divide in America that will eventually lead to a civil war. Like an actual civil war. Okay? But right now, they're fighting over foreign policy. So, I will discuss this more in the future. Okay? But I present to you now. So, let me give you a concrete example of why they're fighting. Why are people in finance fighting with people in AI? And there's a very good reason. Because if you're able to control Washington, D.C. You're able to control the economy. If you're able to control the levers of government, you're able to make a lot of money for yourself.", "word_count": 158, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0020-chunk-001", "start": 1374.27, "end": 1377.72, "text": "Okay? 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So, let's look at this concretely. What people don't really understand is that both finance and AI are bubbles that will burst. They're parasites. Okay? So, finance is a parasite because there's something called a private credit bubble. All right? Okay? So, the private credit bubble... I mean, the idea of private credit is very simple. Rather than banks issuing loans to companies, companies privately issue loans to other companies. And you would think that these companies would be very careful with who they lend to and how much they lend to. Right? That's not true though. Okay? Why? Because in 2008, these banks destroyed the global economy. And the American government bailed them out. Right? They suffered no consequences. This idea of moral hazard. If you do not suffer consequences for your stupidity, well, you're just going to be more stupid in the future. Okay? So, these companies believe that we control Washington, D.C. 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We are seeing civil war in Israel, we're seeing civil war in America. Iran cannot afford to fight a civil war at this time, because they're being bombarded by two very powerful nations, Israel and America, okay? But unfortunately, the law of proximity teaches us that people are much more interested in war. In their own internal conflict than the outside global conflict, okay? And so this understanding now helps us answer the three big questions of today, right? How are these leaders getting killed? Why are they getting killed? And what will this mean for the rest of the world, okay? And so the first two questions, how are they getting killed? Why are they getting killed? Why are they getting killed? Why are they getting killed? Because of all these civil conflicts within these nations, okay? 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And this is the world that we live in today. Okay? And they're fighting against a nationalist theocracy, theocratic. So this is what we can expect for the next five to 10 years, where Iran becomes much more theocratic and extreme and nationalistic. Israel abandons democracy and embraces theocracy. America will also abandon democracy and embrace theocracy, because that is a general trend of the world, okay? Okay? So what I want to do in the next class is discuss how the world will change in the next five to 10 years, all right? Okay. Any questions? Okay?", "word_count": 106, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0042-chunk-001", "start": 2704.008, "end": 2711.06, "text": "You have the global secular financial order,", "word_count": 7 }, { "id": "seg-0042-chunk-002", "start": 2711.2, "end": 2716.34, "text": "okay? And this is the world that we live in today.", "word_count": 11 }, { "id": "seg-0042-chunk-003", "start": 2716.54, "end": 2721.4, "text": "Okay? 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People are always struggled with like identify or not identify, like separating the divine soul and pursue the divine soul, but they cannot get rid of the animal soul. Is there a way where we can only struggle in our lives?", "word_count": 73, "timed_chunks": [ { "id": "seg-0043-chunk-001", "start": 2768.66, "end": 2775.62, "text": "You mentioned that Israel have two divided parts,", "word_count": 8 }, { "id": "seg-0043-chunk-002", "start": 2775.7, "end": 2779.06, "text": "and one represents the animal soul,", "word_count": 6 }, { "id": "seg-0043-chunk-003", "start": 2779.3, "end": 2781.98, "text": "and the other represents the divine soul.", "word_count": 7 }, { "id": "seg-0043-chunk-004", "start": 2782.16, "end": 2785.92, "text": "Like I can substitute this logic to a single person.", "word_count": 10 }, { "id": "seg-0043-chunk-005", "start": 2785.98, "end": 2791.52, "text": "Like... 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So first of all, it's important to understand that this is how religious people in Israel frame the conflict in Israel, okay? A conflict between the animal soul and the divine soul. The conflict between the animal soul and the divine soul. The... People in Tel Aviv would frame the debate as one between progress and tradition, right? Going forward or staying backward, right? So that is... So people in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem would see this in a different way. But as you point out, there's some validity to this idea that we're all struggle between the animal soul and the divine soul. And... I would say... I would say that for the past 20 years, we only have been indulging in the animal soul, okay? We've abandoned the divine soul. And that's why I think people are so desperate for change. 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And what we know from history is that if you... If a society... If a society goes too far in one extreme, they swing back to the extreme, okay? And that's what we're seeing, where one good outcome, I think, of all this conflict around the world is people start to recognize limitations of money, of materialism, of individualism. And they start to embrace more spirituality, community, family. Because quite honestly, you don't have a choice in the matter, okay? If you... If you're like, you know, I want to buy myself a Gulfstream jet, and I want to have, like, you know, a huge company, you're going to be disappointed, okay? As I will show you next class, the world is heading towards an economic depression, okay? Basically a splintering, a rupture in the world. 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But all this means is now you have a chance to focus more on introspection, on reflection, on family, on asking yourself, what makes me happy? What gives me meaning and purpose in life? And the answer, of course, is each other, okay? And maybe this is a good thing. Maybe this is the intention of the universe. Maybe as the people of Jerusalem would say, this is really the plan of God. Okay? And it's unfortunate that all this war and suffering is happening. But again, what a lot of people who are religious will tell you is, we can only find redemption through suffering and through pain and through tragedy, all right? Okay? Any more questions, guys? Okay. All right. 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And the Shia, who is basically the messiah, will turn to lead them to war against the great Satan, which is Israel in the United State..." } ] }, { "term": "private credit bubble", "usages": [ "Private company-to-company lending that Jiang describes as fee-driven, extend-and-pretend, and bailout-dependent." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0022" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0021", "segment_id": "seg-0021", "start": 1445.18, "end": 1525.84, "time_label": "24:05", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "Okay? So, let's look at this concretely. What people don't really understand is that both finance and AI are bubbles that will burst. They're parasites. Okay? So, finance is a parasite because there's something called a..." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0022", "segment_id": "seg-0022", "start": 1526.02, "end": 1582.24, "time_label": "25:26", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "So, they're giving out lots and lots of silly loans to companies because they collect the fees. For these loans, right? And then, when these loans don't actually work out, meaning the companies go bankrupt, what they do..." } ] }, { "term": "redemption and repentance", "usages": [ "The David model in which sin, grief, daily prayer, and forgiveness become the template for national restoration." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0030" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0029", "segment_id": "seg-0029", "start": 1991.42, "end": 2068.56, "time_label": "33:11", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "They see David as primarily a poet prophet, and they see David as the exemplar, as the favorite of God, because he redeemed himself and repented himself in the eyes of God. Okay? So redemption and repentance. All right...." }, { "ref": "video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0030", "segment_id": "seg-0030", "start": 2068.84, "end": 2128.26, "time_label": "34:28", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "He's asking for redemption. He is repenting. And God forgives him. And in this process, not only does David become a better person, but he becomes united with God, because now they're best friends. Now they talk every d..." } ] }, { "term": "Shia eschatology", "usages": [ "Jiang's name for an Iranian wartime religious radicalization toward martyrdom and messianic war." ], "refs": [ "video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0038", "video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0039" ], "refs_detail": [ { "ref": "video:predictive-history-noqqgy4boby@transcript:v1#seg-0038", "segment_id": "seg-0038", "start": 2395.32, "end": 2497, "time_label": "39:55", "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "excerpt": "presidential election, and as you can see, it's a pretty divided country, where people in the middle voted for Jalali, but people in the outskirts voted for Pajasikin. 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